"... a symphony with sunshine and blue skies and full of exuberant joy" is what the Finn Jean Sibelius called his second symphony in 1901, for which he gathered inspiration during a trip to Italy and which fits wonderfully into a concert in the merry month of May.
As "one of the few conductors in the world who performs the latest music with the same skill as Beethoven, Wagner and Sibelius" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Roland Kluttig can be heard with a broad repertoire on international concert and opera stages.
He has also chosen sounds from the sunny south for the first part of the program: the restrained, delicate and passionate Rapsodie espagnole by the Boléro composer Maurice Ravel, the soulful Tango in D by the Spaniard Isaac Albéniz and the Concerto for Bandoneon and Orchestra by tango king Astor Piazzolla, which was named Aconcagua after Argentina's highest mountain. The Norwegian Per Arne Glorvigen, one of today's leading bandoneon players, enjoys the powerful musical ascent of the mountain, but also the dreamy enjoyment of a balmy evening in the valley with an instrument whose origins lie in 19th century Chemnitz.
May 14 and 15, 2025
