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Ticket sales will start in February (date to be announced) via the ticket agency Lippupiste.NEW YORK, Nov. Further details of the festival programme will be announced later. The festival will also feature a piano recital, and the concerts are complemented by other events such as pre-concert talks. The festival concludes with another new kind of collaboration, at Lahti Church of the Cross on Sunday morning, 4 September, with a Keski-Lahti parish church service, the musical content of which focuses on the music of Sibelius.
These reconstructed concerts allow us an interesting glimpse into the music of Sibelius as presented by the composer himself.Īs an innovation, a family concert, ‘Melody Forest’, will also be included in the festival programme, on the afternoon of Saturday 3 September. These included the Finnish premières of the Fourth and Seventh Symphonies and Tapiola.
Sibelius was especially careful to ensure that his premières took place at concerts where the repertoire consisted exclusively of his own compositions’, explains Stasevska, and continues: ‘The Friday and Saturday orchestral concerts at the Sibelius Festival are programmes chosen by Sibelius himself from 19. This allowed composers to present their other works as well. ‘In Sibelius’s time, it was typical that the première of the new work took place in a concert organized by the composer himself. The programmes for the orchestral concerts on Friday 2 September and Saturday 3 September were originally chosen by Jean Sibelius himself. The theme of the orchestral concert on Thursday, 1 September 2022, is ‘Flora and Fauna’, and the concert will feature Pan and Echo, the concert suite from Pelléas et Mélisande, The Wood-Nymph (melodrama) and Snöfrid. The Lahti Symphony Orchestra will give three concerts at the festival conducted by Dalia Stasevska. This visit is made possible thanks to the support from the Jane and Aatos Erko Foundation. The festival will be opened by an international guest appearance of the highest calibre, when the Estonian Festival Orchestra, consisting of European musicians, will perform on Wednesday 31 August 2022, conducted by the renowned Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi. The Lahti Symphony Orchestra’s 23rd Sibelius Festival will be held at the Sibelius Hall in Lahti from 31 August to 4 September 2022, with Dalia Stasevska, chief conductor of the orchestra, as its artistic director. The Estonian Festival Orchestra conducted by Paavo Järvi will visit the Lahti Sibelius Festival on 31 August 2022 The Artistic Director of the festival is the distinguished Chief Conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska. This internationally acclaimed festival will bring together friends of Sibelius’ music from across the globe September 31.8.-, as the Lahti Symphony Orchestra once again invites followers of Finland’s national composer to a wonderful celebration in the acoustically splendid setting of Sibelius Hall. With its annual Sibelius Festival, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra aims to gather together Sibelius’s friends from all over the world and to offer them a truly memorable weekend in the company of Sibelius’s music. Sibelius is also Finland’s most famous composer internationally, whose music has won admirers in all parts of the globe. The position of Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) as Finland’s national composer is probably incontestable his significance for the history of Finnish music is unparalleled.