About the Concert

"A piece of wood that shrieks above and hums below" - not a very flattering description for a cello! It comes from Antonín Dvořák himself, who actually didn't like the cello that much. Until he heard the cello concerto of the American Victor Herbert in New York, which inspired him to write one of the most beautiful cello concertos ever. It will be played by the Spaniard Pablo Ferrandez, who is undoubtedly one of the most accomplished cellists in the world and who is particularly fond of this concerto. And we stay in the North - Jean Sibelius was always in search of the perfect sound. So relentless, in fact, that it took him three attempts to complete his Fifth Symphony. He called it a "struggle with God" himself. It was certainly worth it; the work is a veritable firework of musical ideas.