Sibelius' Kullervo from the Baltic Sea Festival

Alex Humphreys presents an afternoon of exclusive music-making from the UK and beyond. From the Baltic Sea Festival, we hear Sibelius’s dramatic Kullervo, inspired by Finland’s national epic, the Kalevala, and telling the tragic story of its doomed hero. There’s also early music from the award-winning period-instrument ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro, joined by countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński.

Continuing the Baltic connection, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra perform Shostakovich, while Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s Greater Antiphons is performed by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko.

From the East Neuk Festival, the English Concert Winds perform Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, while pianist Christian Zacharias brings together music by Couperin and Poulenc.

Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, p. 35
Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings
Indrek Vau (trumpet)
Marie-Ange Nguci (piano)
Orchestra of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Olari Elts (conductor)

Baltic Sea Festival:
Francesco Cavalli
Incomprensibil nume, Pompeo Magno's aria from act 2 of 'Pompeo Magno'
Il Pomo d'Oro
Jakub Józef Orliński, (countertenor)

Carlo Pallavicino
Sinfonia, from ‘Demetrio’
Il Pomo d'Oro
Jakub Józef Orliński, (countertenor)

East Neuk Festival:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture to Marriage of Figaro
English Concert Winds

East Neuk Festival:
François Couperin: Les Baricades Misterieuses
Francis Poulenc: Deux intermezzi, FP 71: 2. Intermezzo in D flat major
Francis Poulenc: Melancolie for piano
Christian Zacharias (piano)

Baltic Sea Festival:
Jean Sibelius
Kullervo, Op. 7
Aphrodite Patoulidou (soprano)
Peter Mattei (baritone)
Orphei Drängar (male choir)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

Arvo Pärt
Greater Antiphons
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
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