5. Philharmonisches Konzert

Jean Sibelius: "Tapiola" op. 112 / Kathrin A. Denner: "aerify" for trumpet and orchestra (premiere) / Josef Suk: "Pohádka" op. 16 - A fairy tale

The composer Kathrin A. Denner receives the Heidelberg Women Artists' Prize 2024. She studied composition with Theo Brandmüller, Wolfgang Rihm and Johannes Schöllhorn. The scholarship holder of the German Academy in Rome has composed "aerify", a work for orchestra and solo trumpet for the prize concert, which will be premiered by trumpeter Jeroen Berwaerts.

Jean Sibelius fell silent for the last three decades of his life. Before that, however, he devoted himself to fairy tales and myths. The tone poem "Tapiola" thus became the late high point of his work between Romanticism and Modernism.

Like Jean Sibelius, Antonín Dvořák's son-in-law Josef Suk, who would have celebrated his 150th birthday in 2024, was inspired by fairy tales. "Radúz and Mahulena" was a great success and also made Suk known to a wider audience. He later compiled the fairytale-like, romantic suite for orchestra from the incidental music written between 1897 and 1898 about the dazzling Prince Radúz.