City of Turku
City of Turku
01/19/2023 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/19/2023 01:20
TPO:s public dress rehearsal in spring 2023
Culture Card holders can enjoy the public final rehearsals free of charge! Rehearsals begin at 11 am.
The exact duration of the public final rehearsals varies depending on the concert program. Final rehearsals are a walk-through of the whole concert. The orchestra rehears also separate parts or stems depending on the conductor and the program.
Final rehearsals are held in Turku Concert Hall unless stated otherwise. Concert Hall doors are opened around 10.30 and audience is seated few minutes before the rehearsal begins. The cafeteria is not open during the rehearsals.
To the Memory of a King
Thu 23.2. at 11 am Turku Concert Hall
Joseph Swensen, conductor
Edgar Moreau, cello
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
Robert Schumann: Overture to the opera Genoveva
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor op. 129
Edward Elgar: Symphony no. 2 in E flat major op. 63
Edgar Moreau is a rising star in the musical world. At the age of 17, he won 2nd prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and he has appeared with prominent musicians such as András Schiff and Gustavo Dudamel. Here, he teams up with Joseph Swensen, holder of an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews in Scotland. This utterly Romantic programme contains some of the finest music written by Elgar and Schumann; Elgar's Second Symphony was written as a memorial for the late King Edward VII.
This Midnight Hour
Thu 9.3. at 11 am Turku Concert Hall
Tianyi Lu, conductor
Johannes Piirto, piano
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor op. 54
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony no. 7 in D minor op. 70
Johannes Piirto is a high flyer and a veritable favourite with concert audiences. This season, his calendar includes performances at Harpa in Reykjavik and at the Musikverein in Vienna. Schumann's Piano Concerto is one of the great and popular works of the Romantic era. Tianyi Lu appears with the Turku Philharmonic for the third time, conducting a programme that also includes Dvořák's profound and dramatically sombre Symphony no. 7 and a nocturnal moment by Anna Clyne.
Má vlast - My Homeland
Thu 27.4. at 11 am Turku Concert Hall
Petr Altrichter, conductor
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
Bedřich Smetana: Má vlast
Má vlast is an impressive cycle of six National Romantic tone poems celebrating the countryside of Bohemia and its history and legends. Smetana, in one of his most prominent works, transports the listener to the fortress of Vyšehrad, along the course of the Vltava river, through the heroic tale of Šárka, to a bucolic idyll, to the town of Tábor and to Blaník mountain. Performed without an interval, the work is conducted by Smetana's compatriot, Czech conductor Petr Altrichter.