About the Concert

Tickets for these and other events will go on sale on 21 JUNE, as will election tickets for the coming season.

"The Fifth is a cursed work. No one caps it," Gustav Mahler wrote in his diary. Today it is one of his most popular and best-known symphonies. This is certainly also due to the fact that Visconti used its slow movement in his film "Death in Venice". And at the latest since the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra recorded this music with Cate Blanchett for the film TÁR, many consider it to be one of the classics of late Romantic symphonic music.
Pekka Kuusisto began playing the violin at the age of three and won the International Sibelius Competition at 16. Since then, he has been at home on the classical concert podiums. But his interests go far beyond classical music; he also plays jazz, folk and electronic music. Just the right person to play Thomas Adès' "Fairy Tale Dances", which oscillate between minimal music and folk.