Augustin Hadelich performs Sibelius's Violin Concerto — With Jakub Hrůša and the Czech Philharmonic

World-renowned violinist Augustin Hadelich brings one of the most beloved yet challenging pieces in the violin repertoire, Sibelius's Violin Concerto in D minor, to the iconic Dvořák Hall alongside the Czech Philharmonic, under the baton of Jakub Hrůša. This captivating program, dedicated to the music of the great Jean Sibelius and Bohemia-born Josef Suk (Dvořák’s son-in-law!), opens with Suk’s Shakespeare-inspired A Winter’s Tale. Hadelich then takes the stage for a breathtaking, no-frills Sibelius, which “stresses the almost desperate, passionate character of the music” (Gramophone). Another of the Finnish composer's best-known works opens the program’s second half: The Oceanides, a symphonic poem deemed “the finest evocation of the sea ever produced in music” at its 1914 premiere. The concert comes full circle with a return to Suk and his Fairy Tale, a suite from incidental music to Zeyer’s fairy-tale drama Radúz and Mahulena that Suk composed at Dvořák's summer home in Vysoká: "it was springtime in my soul,” he wrote, “and in the music.”

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