Celebration!

John Storgårds, conductor
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra

Leonard Bernstein: Overture from the operetta Candide (duration 5′)
Marc Neikrug: Symphony no 4 (Finnish Premiere) (duration 31′)
Intermission, duration 20′
Antonín Dvořák: The Noon Witch (duration 17′)
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor op. 33 (duration 38′)

The Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and Chief Conductor John Storgårds will open the Turku Concert Hall’s final autumn season with a spectacular celebration. There are several heroes of the day, as Candide celebrates its 70th anniversary, composer Marc Neikrug turns 80 in September, and The Noon Witch premiered 130 years ago. From Bernstein’s exuberant operetta overture and Neikrug’s theatrical Fourth Symphony the journey continues into the world of Dvořák’s Czech folk tales and music. The threatening and melancholic atmosphere of The Noon Witch is balanced by the warm romanticism and lyricism of the piano concerto.