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Maximum: Slavic Night with Maxim Rysanov and Risto Joost in Turku

By Olli Lehtonen, 14 September 2016
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Reviewed at Turku Concert Hall, Turku on 8 September 2016
Programme
Pärt, Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Vasks, Viola Concerto (Finnish première)
Prokofiev, Symphony no. 5 in B flat major, Op.100
Performers
Maxim Rysanov, Viola
Risto Joost, Conductor
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
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Olli Lehtonen
Olli Lehtonen
Olli Lehtonen is a sixth year musicology student and a Bachelor of Arts from Turku, Finland. Although Olli has a popular music background he has a vast knowledge of classical music thanks to his studies and hobby. Apart from popular and classical music his passion is film music that goes way back to Western classical music tradition. His specialities are orchestral pieces of the Romantic Era and 20th-century modernists. In his free time he watches films, plays in different bands and goes to concerts both local and out of town.