Passion and protest

When the award-winning and acclaimed Czech Philharmonic visits the Baltic Sea Festival together with its legendary chief conductor Semyon Bychkov and world-class soloists, two evenings filled with passion, power and emotion await.

First up is violinist Janine Jansen, who recently completed her Artist in Residence with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, here in Shostakovich's first violin concerto in A minor, a work where quiet introspection is broken by an underlying rebellion – a silent protest against oppression.

After follows Antonin Dvořák's Seventh Symphony – one of his most dramatic and concentrated, inspired by political movements in Bohemia and the composer's own sense of national identity, which gives the music an emotional depth.