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Andrew Manze, conductorRalph Vaughan Williams: Dives and Lazarus Béla Bartók: Divertimento for strings Jean Sibelius: Symphony no. 6 in D minor op. 104Folk music provided the initial impulse for the National Romantic style but took composers in very different directions thereafter. Vaughan Williams’s Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’ is based on an English folk ballad and highlights the endless variations found in folk music. At the end of the ballad, snakes drag the rich man, Dives, down to hell. Hell is also glimpsed in Bartók’s Divertimento, written on the threshold of the Second World War, although this piece breaks into a vigorous folk dance towards the end. Sibelius’s Sixth Symphony is sometimes regarded as his most ‘national’ symphony of all, but how will Andrew Manze approach it, given that he is comfortable with both historically informed performances and Vaughan Williams?Pre-concert talk at 18.00–18.30.Subscriptions: Platinum and GoldTapiola Sinfonietta Kevät 2024

Tapiola Sinfonietta: MANZE

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