IN THE FOREST / FBD I

MIKALOJUS KONSTANTINAS ČIURLIONIS

In the Forest, tone poem, Czech premiere

BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ

Rhapsody-Concerto for viola and orchestra, H 337

LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN

Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 “Pastoral”

Maxim Rysanov viola

Brno Philharmonic

conductor Giedrė Šlekytė

• Musical onomatopoeias from nature in Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony and in a tone poem by the founder of Lithuanian national music and world-famous symbolist painter M.K. Čiurlionis under the baton of a young but already internationally respected Lithuanian conductor • The Ukrainian-British violist, Maxim Rysanov returns to Brno after three years, this time with a neo-Romantic fantasy for viola and orchestra by Bohuslav Martinů, composed in 1952 for the Ukrainian-American violist, Jascha Veissi • Czech and Lithuanian music as a reminder of the centenary of the founding of Czechoslovakia and of Lithuania’s independence in 1918