James SHERLOCK – piano
Conductor Tarmo PELTOKOSKI
Programme:
Jānis Ivanovs Rainbow
Richard Strauss Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Johannes Brahms Piano Concerto no. 2
The ninth LNSO Summer Festival will conclude with a grand symphonic concert. With Tarmo Peltokoski at the conductor’s podium, we will listen to Richard Strauss’ symphonic poem Thus Spoke Zarathustra, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s transcendental work Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None. The programme also includes a gem of Latvian symphonic music: Rainbow by the Latgalian composer Jānis Ivanovs. In the second part of the concert, with James Sherlock at the piano, we will listen to Brahms’ ambitious Second Piano Concerto. At the time, the composer told everyone that he had written “a very small piano concerto with a very small and pretty scherzo”. Yet, it would be more accurate to describe it as a colossus of a piano concerto that we are presenting on this special evening for symphonic music aficionados.
* Concert in two parts
** Half an hour before the start of the event, children aged 3 to 7 years will have access to a children’s room. It is free of charge. Please apply in advance by calling +371 64633303