Thomas Dausgaard, one of the leading Sibelius interpreters of our time, takes the podium for a concert devoted to the Finnish national composer. The programme follows his last three symphonies, written between 1915 and 1924, which mark the peak of a lifelong search for a personal musical language.
The Fifth Symphony is the most monumental of the three, building to the famous "swan theme" inspired by birds in flight over Finnish lakes. The Sixth moves in a different direction, which Sibelius himself described as "cold spring water cleansed of all superfluous effects". The Seventh gathers his experience into one continuous movement, where form and expression merge.
