Beethoven und Sibelius

In the organizer's words:

It was composed at the beginning of the last century in the hot, sunny climes of Italy, but Jean Sibelius' Second Symphony enjoyed triumphant success in his native Finland, far to the north. This was also due to the fact that his compatriots saw it as a kind of manifesto against the tsarist yoke. To this day, the slow movement in particular is a kind of national anthem for the Finns, and the finale has something "magical about it that sends us into ecstasy like a shaman's magic drum", as one of Sibelius' compatriots wrote.
We have combined this symphony with a work that was composed around 100 years earlier and still breathes a little of the spirit of Mozart. In his First Piano Concerto, however, Beethoven had already developed his very own means, for example, he used clarinets, trumpets and timpani for the first time ever in a piano concerto. Boris Giltburg presents himself for the first time as our Artist in Residence with this masterpiece.

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D major

Performers

Dima Slobodeniouk | Conductor

Boris Giltburg | Piano (Artist in Residence)

Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra