Schedule

The traditional Independence Day concert sees the glorious past of Finnish music come face to face with a bright future as violinist Lilja Haatainen, only 12 years old, performs Jean Sibelius’s Humoresques. The Lahti Symphony Orchestra treats us to the beloved Karelia Suite and presents a forgotten gem from the shadows of history: Helvi Leiviskä’s Folk Dance Suite.

Mahler: Suite from the Orchestral Works of Johann Sebastian Bach
Mozart: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 5 in A major K. 219
Strauss: Thus spoke Zarathustra, tone poem freely adapted from Friedrich Nietzsche, op. 30

Sibelius: TapiolaIgor

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5

Debussy: Claire de lune
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite
Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire

In collaboration with the Lahti Conservatory

Dvořák - Cello Concerto

Sibelius - Symphony No. 5

Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus, "Concerto for Birds and Orchestra"

Bernstein: Serenade (after Plato's 'Symposium') for Violin and Orchestra

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5

Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus

Perry: Stabat Mater

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Tarrodi: Liguria

Mozart: Klavierkonzert A-Dur KV 488

Sibelius: 5. Sinfonie

Beethoven's 9th Symphony