Coming19.9.202516:00-18:15
Ludwig van Beethoven loved the outdoors: “How happy I am to be able to wander among bushes and herbs, under trees and over rocks!”
In 1837, a scientist claimed that Swiss waterfalls, rivers and lakes resonate in F major. The same key, associated with the peace and balance of nature, also sounds in Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, which expresses the joy of being out in nature.
Californian Gabriella Smith was never meant to be a composer. She wanted to study ecology or marine biology and learn about climate change. But she became a composer, nonetheless. Breathing Forests, commissioned for organist James McVinnie, reflects the complex relationship between humans, forests, climate change and fire.
PEKKA KUUSISTO
conductor
JAMES MCVINNIE
organ
GABRIELLA SMITH
Breathing Forests, for organ and orchestra (first performance in Finland)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"
