Season Finale Concert of the Vanemuine Symphony Orchestra 2026

May 7, 2026 at 19.00 at the Viimsi Artium
May 8, 2026 at 19.00 at the Vanemuine Concert Hall

Programme:
Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto, D minor, op. 47
Richard Strauss, Alpine Symphony, op. 64
World premiere of a new composition Tartu: Echoes of a Millennium by Ardo Ran Varres

The spring season of the Vanemuine Symphony Orchestra will be concluded by the works of Jean Sibelius and Richard Strauss, the grand masters of late romanticism and early modernism. Jean Sibelius’s lyrical Violin Concerto was completed at a time when the composer broke off from the romantic style in search for a new, distinctly Finnish musical language. Richard Strauss’s Alpine Symphony depicts experiences which characterise a single eleven-hour day spent climbing an Alpine mountain peak.

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