Our celebration of the queen of instruments continues. Composer Nico Muhly and organist James McVinnie are two friends who share a love for the music of English Renaissance master Orlando Gibbons. Muhly composed his own concerto based on a song by their mutual favourite composer. Pekka Kuusisto invites into the concert hall a quiet, waking Faun and other mythical creatures coloured by French impressionism.
PEKKA KUUSISTO
conductor
JAMES MCVINNIE
organ
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
NICO MUHLY
Register, concerto for organ and orchestra (first performance in Finland)
MAURICE RAVEL
Ma mére L'Oye, Mother Goose, ballet
