Jukka-Pekka Saraste will conduct the Danish National Symphony Orchestra on Thursday March 14^th in a new concert broadcast live by the European Broadcasting Union - a maestro with a great affinity for the Romantic repertoire, who has conducted an impressive number of orchestras to date, his prestige crossing continents. Artistic Director of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, he is often invited to conduct concerts in major European concert halls, now in Copenhagen, where he will conduct two established works from the European repertoire.

In the first part, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's Concerto Op. 64 in E minor for violin and orchestra, featuring Randall Goosby, a disciple of Itzak Perlman at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, an established name in the gallery of 21st century virtuosos who has debuted in recent seasons with major orchestras on both continents. He is a young black man who is also involved in educational projects to make classical music more accessible to the general public, and in 2022 he will receive the Sphinx Medal of Excellence for outstanding black artists in their early years.

In the second part of the concert, Johannes Brahms's Symphony IV Op.98 in E minor is programmed, an emblematic score for the German composer, according to some reviewers, his most valuable work for the way he treats the symphonic material and for the depth Brahms gives to the sound discourse, the first and last parts being considered symphonies in themselves. The breadth, the musical ideas, the epic allure undoubtedly impress, as does the last part - a Passacaglia with 30 variations, having the role of a conclusion, compared by musicologists to the finale of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

We will therefore remain on Thursday March 14^th from 8.30 pm on these familiar Romantic coordinates, which we always enjoy going through with infinite pleasure, all the more so as we are familiar with the absolutely impressive cards of the artists invited to the imposing modern concert hall in Copenhagen.