FRSO: Season 2024-2025 Opening Concert

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (FRSO), Nicholas Collon, Louise Alder & Kazutaka Morita

The timpanist is, says Richard Ayres, half musician and half magician, a solitary figure presiding over his huge kettledrums at the back of the orchestra. 

K’s Strange Day was composed for FRSO percussionist Kazutaka Morita. 

Richard Strauss wrote his Four Songs, Op. 27 as a wedding present for his wife Pauline. The words, sung now by Louise Alder, speak of love and passion, but also of a search for inner peace.

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (FRSO)
Nicholas Collon, conductor
Louise Alder, soprano
Kazutaka Morita, timpani

Richard Ayres: ”No. 57 (K's Strange Day)” for Timpani and Orchestra, world premiere (Yle commission)
Richard Strauss: Four Songs Op. 27
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor Op. 47

Musiikkitalo, Concert Hall

4. & 5.9.2024 

19.00, duration is not mentioned

Tickets 12,50-40,50 € from Musiikkitalo

Before the concert at 18.00 in Lower Foyer:
New work! Composer Richard Ayres presents