Kristaps BERGS – cello
Conductor Kristiina POSKA
Programme:
Helena TULVE New work (premiere)
Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI Cello Concerto
Johannes BRAHMS Symphony no. 1
In the concert on 21 April, the orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor Kristiina Poska and the LNSO will treat the audience with a performance of the powerful symphonic opus Chordae by the contemporary Estonian composer Ülo Krigul, and the great cellist Kristaps Bergs will perform Polish composer Witold Lutosławski’s tense Cello Concerto. Meanwhile, Brahms was 43 years old when his First Symphony was premiered. He was undeniably a harsh self-critic and claimed that from the beginning of composition until the last revisions, the First had been 21 years in the making. He once wrote a friend that he would never write a symphony, because “you have no idea what it feels like, for someone like me always to hear such a giant as Beethoven marching along behind”. And yet today we have nine exemplar symphonies by Beethoven, and also four by the self-critical Brahms.