You can now watch and listen to HPO concerts in the comfort of your very own armchair, streamed online. During the interval you can also meet interesting people and hear what goes on behind the scenes. The recordings of live concerts will be available the following week. Gustav Mahler originally gave a title to each movement of his grand Third Symphony but removed them from the score before the work was published. However, six famous titles have stubbornly remained on the side of the symphony from one generation, programme and concert to the next.
Step into a musical time machine! Celebrating the May Day atmosphere since ! He is its favorite child now. Carl Nielsen compared composing to rolling a stone. And there the stone lies still. Let the sound waves tingle, entangle and tease. The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra premiered the violin concerto of Jean Sibelius, conducted by the composer himself, in , and since then the piece has been played by the orchestra more than times.
Moscow, Berlin, and especially Paris. The Helsinki Music Centre Choir blows out ten birthday candles with works whose composers have been enchanted by poetry and painting.
Allow us to introduce: the environmental robot Baltic! He has met children from Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Germany and Denmark and sought answers to their tricky environmental questions about how we can all help protect the Baltic Sea. Two violin sounds β a sforzato and a pizzicato β provided the basic material for the tape used in Kaija Saariaho's first orchestral work.
Camilla Nylund, one of our most successful opera singers, is also one of the brightest stars among international sopranos. Two concertos for the price of one! A favourite soloist playing a favourite concerto! Mackenzie Melemed, winner of the International Maj Lind Piano Competition, enchants audiences with his focused presence.
