Sibelius' Kullervo

This concert opens with the dramatic overture in which Beethoven musically expresses the dual struggle of the Roman leader Coriolanus. Then you can listen to music that the composer did not allow to be published during his lifetime: Kullervo by Jean Sibelius. Sibelius got the spark for this particular opus from a runic singer from Karelia, whom he heard singing orally preserved folk music in 1891. The work began as an overture based on the Finnish folk epic Kalevala, but grew into a composition in five movements of some eighty minutes, with a cast of soprano, baritone, male chorus and orchestra. Is Kullervo a symphony, a symphonic poem, a cantata? Rather a happy blend of all three. Tonight you will hear the work in its entirety!









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