HKO: Petruška

Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor Marko Ylönen, cello Igor Stravinsky: Ilotulitus Witold Lutosławski: Cello Concerto Igor Stravinsky: Petruška (1911) Stravinsky used collage technique in his Petruška, which showed he was in touch with the times: at the same time, visual artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were using newspaper clippings as material for their works. Witold Lutosławski's cello concerto begins in an attention‑grabbing way: the cellist plays a monotonously repeated D‑note every second alone. Lutosławski's own view of the situation resembles a description of a meditative mind: "I think of the D‑note as a moment of complete relaxation or even absent‑mindedness. The performer discards this state as soon as something else begins to happen, and returns to it several times during the introduction."