KSO spring season ends with music beyond the veil of reality on 16th of May

Published 08.05.2024

Versatile artist Olli Mustonen as soloist of Rachmaninoff’s popular 3rd piano concerto

At the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra’s season concert Beyond the Veil of Reality on Thursday 16th of May at 6 pm music takes the audience to the world of dreams, fairy tales and memories. The virtuoso Olli Mustonen arrives to perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s nostalgic Piano Concerto No 3. Before the concerto we will hear Matthieu Stefanelli’s Hypnos and Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Märchenbilder composed as a child. The concert organized at the Kuopio Music Centre’s Concert Hall will be led by the chief conductor Eugene Tzigane.

The KSO’s Beyond the Veil of Reality concert on May 16th the subject of research is dreams, fairy tales and memories. In his work Hypnos from 2018, the French composer Matthieu Stefanelli wanted to look at the outer reaches of reality. Inspired by the Greek god of sleep, the music traverses the ephemeral landscape of the dream world with its often inexplicable joys and night-terrors.

As a true child prodigy, Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote a series of piano pieces based on fairy tales at the age of only 11. The following year, at the age of 12, he orchestrated the piano pieces into Märchenbilder (Fairy Tale Pictures), which contains fantastic musical depictions of six fairy tales.

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s highly popular 3rd piano concerto is full of nostalgia, wistfulness, longing and passion. The soloist part of the concerto is technically very difficult, even declared the most difficult in the world. In Kuopio, it will be performed by the multi-awarded piano artist Olli Mustonen, whose early started, impressive career takes him to the main concert stages of the world, both as a piano soloist and chamber musician, and as a conductor and composer.

Before the concert, at 5:30 pm in Valohalli, a Pre-Talk event open to everyone is organized.

Tickets: 33 € / 27 € senior citizens and groups min. 20 persons / 11 € children under the age of 16 and students / 4 € concert day discount ticket for students and young people under the age of 20.

KUOPIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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