Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

FRSO, Nicholas Collon & Lawrence Power

Composing a viola concerto was a personal challenge for Lindberg. “It was high time I took a closer look at what the viola has to offer the contemporary composer – or to put it another way, what the contemporary composer has to give this fine instrument.” The finale of Brahms’s fourth symphony was setting an example for Lindberg back in the 1980s, when he began organising harmonies on the chaconne principle. The award-winning ICE by Cecilia Damström with which the concert begins alludes to the melting of the ice and the climate crisis.

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Nicholas Collon, conductor
Lawrence Power, viola

Cecilia Damström: ICE
Magnus Lindberg: Viola Concerto, world premiere (Yle commission)
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 E Minor Op. 98

Helsinki Music Centre, Concert Hall

28. & 29.2.2024

19.00-21.00

Tickets 10-40€ from Ticketmaster