Mørk & Mäkelä & Oslo Philharmonic

Dvořák’s Cello Concerto performed by Truls Mørk and Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen suite, conducted by “Finnish miracle”, Klaus Mäkelä.

When conductor Klaus Mäkelä made his Czech debut at the Prague Spring in 2023, he caused a sensation. The “Finnish miracle”, as the Czech daily Lidové noviny described him at the time, who assumes the posts of Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2027, now returns to the festival with the Oslo Philharmonic, which he has headed since 2020. And he brings with him an exquisite programme of Czech and Finnish music: Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor with soloist Truls Mørk, who received the prestigious ECHO Klassik award for his recording of this piece, and the Lemminkäinen suite by Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), inspired by the Finnish epic Kalevala. It will be fascinating to hear this dramatic work performed by the Scandinavian musicians who made an acclaimed recording of all of Sibelius’s symphonies for Decca. “Mäkelä’s cycle is all of a piece, accomplished, insightful and full of the beauty and intrigue that make these works so perennially exciting,” stated a critic for Gramophone magazine. The work, which traces the adventures of the Finnish shaman Lemminkäinen, gives Mäkelä and the Philharmonic players the opportunity to acquaint us with a world of hitherto unfamiliar colours and emotions.

Tickets: 1 050 – 9 000 CZK