<p><br></p><p>Goran Gora – narrator</p><p>Roberts RUBĪNS – director</p><p><br></p><p>Conductor TAAVI ORAMO</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Programme:</strong></p><p>· Jean SIBELIUS <em>The Swan of Tuonela</em></p><p>· Jean SIBELIUS Symphony No. 6</p><p>· Emīls DĀRZIŅŠ <em>The Melancholic Waltz</em></p><p><br></p><p>Dārziņš and Sibelius. Perhaps no other composers have ever had such an enigmatic relationship. The Finnish composer’s <em>Swan of Tuonela</em> left a grave mark on Dārziņš, as he was accused of copying Sibelius’s work in his own composition <em>The</em> <em>Lonely Pine Tree</em>. Legend has it, these allegations devastated the sensitive composer, who then retrieved the score from the publisher and burned it in a fireplace in Kazarov’s Wine Cellar, a bar in Riga. We will never know what it sounded like; all we have is Dārziņš’s brilliant <em>Melancholic Waltz</em> with its delicate lyricism. And we have music to reconcile the two composers who, by chance, became enemies.</p>