Dima Slobodeniuk dirigiert Salonen und Tschaikowsky

In the organizer's words:

Dima Slobodeniouk conducts a program that is all about Nordic dream images and winter landscapes: For large parts, Einojuhani Rautavaara's Piano Concerto No. 3 radiates tranquillity and mysticism; you would almost think it was written at night in a snow-covered hut in front of a warming open fire. The Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen, who recently won an award for his recording of this work, returns to the Munich Philharmonic as soloist with this "gift of dreams". The dark, demonic side of the night, which can rob us of sleep, inspired Rautavaara's student Esa-Pekka Salonen to write his orchestral work "Insomnia", which uses a large orchestral apparatus and special sound magic to describe the nocturnal unease until the sun rises to save us. Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1, on the other hand, is more conciliatory and calming: With this symphony, Tchaikovsky made an atmospheric declaration of love to the Russian winter with all its appearances of horse-drawn sleighs, ice flowers and pale winter sunlight.