05.02.2025, 20:00
National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa
Victoria Polevá: Symphony No. 3, "White Interment"
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"
Edward Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, “Enigma Variations”
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
The performance of Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony by the musicians from Helsinki under their conductor, John Storgårds, who is energetic but not given to grandstanding, was entirely appropriate to the subtle musicality of the interpretation. […] Sibelius can hardly be played better than this.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 27.10.2010,
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra