Sonorous melancholy
3rd Hansa II subscription concert
Works by Mozart, Prokofjev and Sibelius
»That I, a poor chap, can experience such rich moments! The autumn sun is shining. Nature glows in farewell colours. My heart sings wistfully and the shadows grow longer« wrote Sibelius shortly before the premiere of his 5th Symphony with which he was celebrated by the audience with storms of cheers on the occasion of his 50th birthday in 1915. A flock of soaring swans had inspired him to write one of his greatest musical ideas: »Natural mysticism and world-weariness! The final theme of the Fifth Symphony«. Tarmo Peltokoski contrasts his Finnish compatriot’s main work with the highly experimental G minor Symphony by the 17-year-old Mozart, a score full of burning longing and stormy rebellion. And Jan Lisiecki continues his Prokofiev cycle, at the end of which he will have performed all five of the composer’s piano concertos with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen: Works that are among their performers’ most original and challenging concert pieces of the early 20th century.