Fairytale-like – Playful Instincts
Podcast episode on the concert programme
‘Märchenhaft’ bridges the gap between existential experience and fantasy: Outi Tarkiainen’s ‘The Rapids of Life’ depicts birth as an unpredictable torrent of life, whilst Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1 translates a personal love story into expressive musical discourse – performed by Patricia Kopatchinskaja. After the interval, Caroline Shaw’s ‘Entr’acte’ shifts familiar soundscapes into the unknown, before Maurice Ravel’s ‘Ma mère l’Oye’ leads the evening into a luminous fairy-tale world. Pekka Kuusisto conducts.