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  • Sun. 16.05.
  • 8.00 p.m.

  • ·Klassik Cloud

Nordic Connection

Works by Respighi, Vaughan Williams and Beethoven

Finnish musician Pekka Kuusisto and The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen share a long-standing artistic friendship, and the visionary soloist known for delivering innovative concerts recently even made his directing debut with the orchestra. This programme, in which he will be seen and heard as concert master, soloist and conductor, will allow him to demonstrate all his skills.

Both Ottorino Respighi and Ralph Vaughan Williams attempted to draw from tradition to bring forth the new. The glory days of Italian and French lute music are evoked in Respighi’s ›Antique Dances and Arias‹, English folklore and lyricism in Vaughan Williams’ ›The Lark Ascending‹.

The listening experience must also have been completely new and exciting for the Viennese in April 1800, when the young Beethoven presented his first symphony with all manner of surprises, from the seventh chord at the beginning to the scales at the start of the final movement.

Programme

    • Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
    • Antiche danze ed arie (Ancient Airs and Dances): Suite III
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
    • The Lark Ascending
    • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
    • Symphony No. 1 in C major op. 21
© Foto: Felix Broede

Violin and director

Pekka Kuusisto

The violinist, conductor and composer Pekka Kuusisto is well known for his artistic freedom and refreshing approach to the repertoire. This versatile musician debuted as a violinist in 2022 with the Berlin Philharmoniker and will be appearing in 2023 with, among others, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Featured among the most recent highlights as a conductor are appearances with the Concertgebouworkest, the hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, whose ›Artistic Best Friend‹ he has been since 2017.

Since 2022, Pekka Kuusisto has been Artistic Director of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and for the 2023/24 season, will also be the First Guest Conductor and Artistic Co-Director of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.

An enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music, who regularly premieres new works, and as a talented improvisor, Pekka Kuusisto reguarly collaborates with people from across the artistic spectrum. Unfazed by the conventional boundaries of genre, his most recent projects have included collaborations with composer and pianist Hauschka and percussionist Samuli Kosminen, Dutch neurologist Erik Scherder and electronic music pioneer Brian Crabtree, among others. In 2022, Kuusisto will release his first album as a conductor together with violinist Vilde Frang and the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen.

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© Foto: Felix Broede

Violin and director

Pekka Kuusisto

The violinist, conductor and composer Pekka Kuusisto is well known for his artistic freedom and refreshing approach to the repertoire. This versatile musician debuted as a violinist in 2022 with the Berlin Philharmoniker and will be appearing in 2023 with, among others, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Featured among the most recent highlights as a conductor are appearances with the Concertgebouworkest, the hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, whose ›Artistic Best Friend‹ he has been since 2017.

Since 2022, Pekka Kuusisto has been Artistic Director of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and for the 2023/24 season, will also be the First Guest Conductor and Artistic Co-Director of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.

An enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music, who regularly premieres new works, and as a talented improvisor, Pekka Kuusisto reguarly collaborates with people from across the artistic spectrum. Unfazed by the conventional boundaries of genre, his most recent projects have included collaborations with composer and pianist Hauschka and percussionist Samuli Kosminen, Dutch neurologist Erik Scherder and electronic music pioneer Brian Crabtree, among others. In 2022, Kuusisto will release his first album as a conductor together with violinist Vilde Frang and the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen.

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