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Works by Viennese composers and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s piano concerto will be heard at the Turku Concert Hall Thu. 26th and Fri. 27th October at 7pm. Christian Kluxen, known by top orchestras around the world as the ‘Mighty Viking’, returns to conduct the Turku Philharmonic in a concert whose soloist is Juho Pohjonen, a pianist whose international career is on the ascendant. Tasty Tones series is also back with some Bavarian-Viennese delicacies introduced by music scholar Susanna Välimäki before the concert on Thu. at 5.30pm. Head Start begins at 6pm at the Concert Hall’s Café where concert’s program will be discussed and performers interviewed.
The concert begins with Anton Webern’s Passacaglia, which was at the crossroads of Webern’s career, carrying already traces of expressionism. Pohjonen performs Esa-Pekka Salonen’s prolific Piano Concerto, whose world premiere in New York in 2007 was a huge success. Strauss’s celebrated tone poem Tod und Verklärung paints a lovely image of the moment of death. Strauss is said to have remarked immediately before his death that dying felt exactly like he described it in this piece.
In Eternity at the Turku Concert Hall Thu. 26th and Fri. 27th Oct. at 7 pm. Tasty Tones series Thu. 26th Oct. at 5.30pm. Head Start at 6pm. Christian Kluxen, conductor, Juho Pohjonen, piano, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Webern – Salonen - Strauss. Tickets 23,50/18,50/9,50€.
