Tyyntä myrskyn edellä

Vaasa & Seinäjoki City Orchestras
cond. Jukka Iisakkila
sol. Otto Antikainen, violin

“The eternal movement of the ice has its own song: slowly rolling, relentless, and all-encompassing,” writes composer Outi Tarkiainen. March brings us closer to the vernal equinox, making it a fitting moment to observe Finnish nature also through music. The combined orchestras of Vaasa and Seinäjoki will perform, in addition to Tarkiainen’s work, Jean Sibelius’s masterful incidental music to The Tempest and Jorma Panula’s orchestral piece L’heure bleue – The Blue Hour, which breathes the atmosphere of dusk. Otto Antikainen, an alumnus of the Violin Academy who impressively reached the finals of the most recent Sibelius Competition, displays his virtuosity as the soloist in Einar Englund’s Violin Concerto, a work that radiates clarity and light.