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Party and celebration – and a few of the most breathtaking works in music history: We welcome our new chief conductor in style. Dmitry Matvienko (Dima) will lead the orchestra for the next three seasons - and this concert is his official accession concert. We celebrate that with fireworks – (almost) quite literally: in Stravinsky's bubbling, exuberant firework music, we can hear the rockets' luminous dance across the sky.

The extremes of life - and the music: join us in celebrating our new chief conductor with Stravinsky's festive firework music - and face death with Strauss's fearless depiction of the final journey. Poetic and expressive, Strauss describes the very last moments of life in Tod und Verklärung . His music depicts the pain, the unfulfilled dreams – and the overwhelming ecstasy when the soul is finally set free in the perfection of the afterlife. Strauss's depiction of the beauty of life and death is nothing short of magnificent.

An instrument that is usually well hidden in the orchestra – and a couple of composers that history had forgotten: this concert offers new discoveries and hidden gems. In Jolivet's fantastic bassoon concert, we get to hear Aarhus Symphony Orchestra's solo bassoonist, Maksim Karpinskii, unfold. And there will be plenty of opportunity for that: Jolivet's bassoon concerto is not just one of the most difficult written for the instrument – ​​it is also one of the best wind concertos of the 20th century.