Crossings and daring transgressions are the subject of this concert, which culminates in Haydn’s cheeky nudge to his boss (the ‘Farewell’ Symphony) and Beethoven’s blast against convention in the Grosse Fuge. Journeys to desert islands can yield fairy tale reunions (Haydn) or Erkki-Sven Tüür’s idyll of charming solitude, but beware Locatelli’s labyrinth of virtuosity – easy to enter, but famously difficult to exit. More perils, in the form of unbridled avarice, permeate the soundtrack of the movie There Will be Blood, set in the Californian oil boom. Finally, adventurous O/Modernt prospectors are richly rewarded with gemlike works by Tallis (full of cross-relations) and Purcell. 

ARTISTS

O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra

PROGRAMME 

Franz Josef Haydn Overture from L’Isola disabitata  
Erkki Sven-Tüür Insula Deserta
Thomas Tallis O Nata Lux
Jonny Greenwood Suite from There Will be Blood
Pietro Locatelli Caprice in D Major (‘The Labyrinth’)
Henry Purcell (arr. Johannes Marmén) Cold Song (What Power art Thou?)

–intermission–

Franz Josef Haydn Symphony No. 45 (‘Farewell’)
Ludwig van Beethoven Grosse Fuge Op. 133