HKO: Swan of the Underworld

Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor Johan Dalene, violin Thomas Adès: Violin Concerto “Concentric Paths” Jean Sibelius: Lemminkäinen, four legends “Adès’s violin concerto teeters on the edge of madness with its whimsical ramblings, orchestral catastrophes, stuttering brass and lopsided dinosaur steps.” (New York Magazine) Swedish‑Norwegian violinist Johan Dalene impresses as interpreter of Adès’s concerto. “Each silence was charged with emotion; Dalene turned the score into a story that literally swept the listener along.” (Klassiek-Centraal) In Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen series, the composer’s most famous bird, the Swan of the Underworld, glides over dark waters.