Conductor Joost SMEETS
Programme:
Edward Elgar, Astor Piazzolla, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jean Sibelius, Dmitri Shostakovich, Kurt Weill
Sibelius and Finland as one and the same idea, Shostakovich’s “The Gadfly” Suite together with its wondrously beautiful Romance, Elgar’s tender musical portrait of Nimrod, the Bacchanale from Saint-Saëns’s opera “Samson and Delilah”, Kurt Weill with the hits from “The Threepenny Opera”, and the heart-rending storms of feeling from Astor Piazzolla’s tango operita “María de Buenos Aires”. The gleaming forces of horns, trumpets, trombones and tuba will be commanded and guided by our guest from the Netherlands, Joost Smeets – an outstanding tuba player, professional godfather to Latvia’s young tuba players and, in recent years, the owner of a successful conducting career as well