Did Sisyphus have dreams? And if so, what did he dream about? Perhaps of soft moss, which is good for resting on, said Jouni Kaipainen, but he certainly didn't dream of stones! With his narrative compositional style, the Finnish composer, who died in 2015, always managed to arouse the curiosity of his audience and captivate them with his musical imagination. Shostakovich's 1st Piano Concerto also exudes a playful approach. Shostakovich cleverly quotes Beethoven, Haydn and himself, cheerfully collages a wide variety of styles and lets a single trumpet appear in the accompanying string orchestra as a parodistic disruptive factor. The solo trumpeter of the Munich Philharmonic, Alexandre Baty, is the cheeky dialogue partner of the celebrated Turkish pianist Fazıl Say in this program. With Sibelius' majestic Second Symphony, which was associated with the Finnish struggle for independence immediately after its premiere, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste takes the audience back to the Finnish forests — perhaps to a small mossy clearing that invites dreaming.

Jouni Kaipainen

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7 - 8 Mar, 2025

The longing Schostakowitsch Sibelius · Munich Philharmonic

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