Minea (excerpt)

Lahti Symphony Orchestra's concerts are available online at www.classiclive.com -------------------------------------------- Thu 3.2.2011 at 19 Sibelius Hall SYMPHONY CONCERT Osmo Vänskä, conductor Jaakko Kuusisto, violin Aho: Minea Nielsen: Violin Concerto Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 Kalevi Aho's Minea was a commission for the Minnesota Orchestra and a great success with critics and audience alike at its premiere in November 2009. The soloist in the Violin Concerto by Danish Carl Nielsen completed exactly 100 years ago (in 1911) is the LSO's own leader, Jaakko Kuusisto. The LSO's Conductor Laureate Osmo Vänskä is back for the first time since his Chief Conductor days in a performance of the Symphony No. 3 by Serge Rachmaninov, reckoned to be that composer's most Russian.