The Firebird

Finnish conductor Emilia Hoving leads the orchestra through two strikingly different sonic worlds.

Outi Tarkiainen grew up near the Arctic Circle with the sounds of ice in her ears - crackling, creaking, rumbling. In Song of the Ice, the music follows ice's transformation through the seasons. Then Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird takes over: the tale of a bird that brings both fortune and misfortune to whoever captures her, told with a rhythm and orchestration as vivid as the bird's plumage.