About the Concert

»Everything rejoices and hopes when spring comes again«, said Friedrich Schiller. Just in time for the beginning of spring, our young musicians invite the audience on an exciting musical journey through time from the mid-18th to the mid-20th century. Joseph Haydn's very special symphony in F minor, La passione, already suggests a connection between Easter and Passiontide and Ostara - the Germanic goddess of spring, fertility and dawn. The inspiration of the program becomes clear through the sonorous homages to the new season by Frederik Delius, Jean Sibelius or Lili Boulanger, and the musical journey through time also takes us through distant and unique landscapes of the European continent: from the idyllic British plains to the cool Parisian mornings to the boreal Finnish primeval forest. Less picturesque, but brilliantly pictorial, the tragic story behind Antonín Dvorak's The Wood Dove explores the contrasting colors of the wilderness in a fascinating way. Finally, the inexhaustible power of nature (and music) gives us light, warmth and comfort, which could only be perfectly complemented by the scents of southern roses.
Bruno Borralhinho