Symphony Concert

Beethoven and Sibelius

Dima Slobodeniouk and Boris Giltburg with masterpieces
© Marco Borggreve

9/19

Friday | 9/19/2025
7:00 pm Start of Concert
Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
Prices
64 | 53 | 45 | 39 | 29 | 22 €
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About the Concert

It was composed at the beginning of the last century in the hot, sunny regions of Italy, but the triumphant success of Jean Sibelius' Second Symphony was celebrated in his homeland of Finland in the far north. This was also because his countrymen heard in it a kind of manifesto against the tsarist yoke. To this day, especially the slow movement is a kind of national anthem for the Finns, and the finale has something "magical that puts us in ecstasy like the shaman's magic drum," as a compatriot of Sibelius wrote. We have combined this symphony with a work that was created about 100 years earlier and still breathes a little of Mozart's spirit. In his First Piano Concerto, Beethoven had already developed his own means, for example, he used clarinets, trumpets, and timpani for the first time ever in a piano concerto. Boris Giltburg presents himself with this masterpiece for the first time as our Artist in Residence.

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D major

Artists

Dima Slobodeniouk
Conductor
Boris Giltburg
Piano (Artist in Residence)
Dresdner Philharmonie

Biographies

Dima Slobodeniouk

Conductor

Dima Slobodeniouk is known for his musical expertise and interpretive depth. Born in Russia, the conductor moved to Finland in 1991 and completed his studies there. From 2016 to 2021, he was Chief Conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Sibelius Festival, and from 2013 to 2022 Chief Conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia. In 2024/25 he will make his debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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Boris Giltburg

Artist in Residence 25/26

Our Artist in Residence introduces himself. You can find more pictures & videos of Boris Giltburg here.

Moscow-born Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg is praised worldwide as an extremely sensitive, empathetic and captivating performer, and he appears each season with a wide variety of repertoire. He demonstrates this again in the 2025/26 season, when he – as Artist in Residence of the Dresden Philharmonic – performs a solo recital at the Kulturpalast, as well as four concerts with the orchestra in Dresden and two concerts on tour with works by Beethoven, Mozart, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Gershwin.

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Dresdner Philharmonie

Top Class!

That is the claim of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. The orchestra stands for concerts at the highest artistic level, musical education for all ages and looking beyond the musical horizon. Guest performances on almost every continent and collaborations with guests from all over the world have established the reputation of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra in the international classical music world.  

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