Vilde Frang performs Schumann's Violin Concerto

In this concert, Pablo Heras-Casado presents three works that all revolve around light and darkness, but in entirely different ways. From Tjøgersen's flickering LED choreography, via Schumann's forgotten violin concerto with Vilde Frang as soloist, to Stravinsky's legendary ballet.

In the darkness, fireflies blink their secret messages, each species with its own language of light. But light pollution is making it increasingly difficult for them to find each other, and they are now threatened. Kristine Tjøgersen has translated this fragile language of nature into music, in which the orchestra itself blinks with LED lights in choreographed patterns. From the vulnerable dance of the fireflies, we move on to other kinds of encounters and magical creatures: Robert Schumann's violin concerto was written during a happy period of close friendships, but kept hidden for more than 80 years. And in Stravinsky's The Firebird, we enter a fantasy world where a prince is saved by a blazing bird in a garden taken over by evil.