John Storgårds

29.04.2025, 19:00

Korundi House of Culture, Rovaniemi

Lapland Chamber Orchestra

CHAMBER SYMPHONY CONCERT IV

John Storgårds, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Tomas Gricius, trumpet

Aaron Copland: Symphony No. 2 Short Symphony (arr. Dennis Russell Davies, Finnish premiere)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 2 in B Flat Major Op. 19
Sunleif Rasmussen: Chorals and Dances (Finnish premiere)
Dmitri Šostakovitš: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor Op. 35


Kalenteri

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