Anu Tali, guest conductor
Chaeyoung Park, piano
EDUARD TUBIN Estonian Dance Suite
EDVARD GRIEG Piano Concerto
JEAN SIBELIUS Symphony No. 1
Estonian conductor Anu Tali leads your Kansas City Symphony in a vibrant program of music that evokes northern landscapes. The concert begins with a dance suite by Eduard Tubin, an Estonian composer who spent much of his life in Sweden. Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto is one of the genre’s best-loved works and has one of the most dramatic openings of any piano concerto. The capstone of the performance is Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’s First Symphony. It was modeled after the famous “Pathétique” Symphony by Tchaikovsky, yet bears the original stamp of Sibelius, who was to become one of the greatest symphonic composers of the 20th century.