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Into the Distance

Name: Into the Distance
Start: 2025-01-12T11:00:00
Location: Museum Ludwig

Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne

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26 years old, and just married to a woman who is an avowed Fennoman (a Finland enthusiast), young Jean Sibelius starts composing his first tone poem. Rather than following a specific musical road map, his En saga is more of a fairy tale of mystic landscapes. It shows vast surfaces of sound, subdued melancholy, and here and there, cheerful trolls pop up for a perky little dance. Incidentally, the first sketches to this piece were made in Austria, ...

Program

Kaija Saariaho - Saarikoski-laulut

Jean Sibelius - En saga

Composer

Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 8

Composer

Participants

Sakari Oramo

Conductor

Anu Komsi

Singer

Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne