Thu 8 Sep 7 pm Tampere Hall Hannu Lintu, conductor Lilli Paasikivi, alto Tampere Philharmonic Choir Women Boys Choir Pirkanpojat Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Fri 16 Sep 7 pm Tampere Hall Hannu Lintu, conductor Viviane Hagner, violin Miettinen: Cosmic Mosaic (commissioned by TPO, premiere) Sibelius: Violin Concerto Enescu: Symphony No. 2
Fri 30 Sep 7 pm Tampere Hall Hannu Lintu, conductor Ray Chen, violin Debussy (orch. C. Matthews): 5 preludes Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Fri 7 Oct 7 pm Tampere Hall Hannu Lintu, conductor Alexander Toradze, piano Heiniö: Maestoso (premiere) Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (composition replaced) Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral”
Fri 14 Oct 7 pm Tampere Hall Fabio Mechetti, conductor Daniel Müller-Schott, cello Barber: Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Fri 21 Oct 7 pm Tampere Hall Claus Peter Flor, conductor Henning Kraggerud, violin Jan-Erik Gustafsson, cello Brahms: Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra Schubert: Symphony No. 9 “Great“
Fri 4 Nov 7 pm Tampere Hall Hannu Lintu, conductor Jorma Hynninen, baritone R. Strauss: Death and Transfiguration Brahms (orch. Glanert): Vier ernste Gesänge Hakola: Kivi-laulut - Seven Songs to texts by Aleksis Kivi Sibelius: Symphony No. 6
Fri 11 Nov 7 pm Tampere Hall Gregor Bühl, conductor Markus Schirmer, piano Weill: Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, The Threepenny Opera Suite Britten: Piano Concerto Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Fri 18 Nov 7 pm Tampere Hall Eugene Tzigane, conductor Ismo Eskelinen, guitar Ravel: Ma mère l’Oye Tan Dun: Guitar Concerto "Yi2" Brahms (arr. Schönberg): Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor
Fri 25 Nov 7 pm Tampere Hall Hannu Lintu, conductor Marko Ylönen, cello (soloist replaced) Haydn: Symphony No. 83 ”The Hen” Bergman: Cello Concerto, Op. 141 (composition replaced) Bergman: Burla Haydn: Symphony No. 82 ”The Bear"
Fri 2 Dec 7 pm Tampere Hall Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor Alban Gerhardt, cello (soloist replaced) Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor (composition replaced) Stravinsky: La baiser de la fée
The Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra reserves the right to change the programme or artists where circumstances dictate. (S = Season Ticket series concert)
Fri 27 Jan 7 pm Tampere Hall Hannu Lintu, conductor Angela Hewitt, piano Valérie Hartmann-Claverie, ondes martenot Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony
Fri 3 Feb 7 pm Tampere Hall Olli Mustonen, conductor Juha Kotilainen, baritone (soloist replaced) Sibelius: The Bard Mustonen: Symphony No. 1 "Tuuri" (premiere) Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6
Fri 10 Feb 7 pm Tampere Hall Tomáš Netopil, conductor Maxim Rysanov, viola Haydn: Symphony No. 94 ”Surprise” Bartók: Viola Concerto Dvořák: Symphony No. 8
Fri 17 Feb 7 pm Tampere Hall Anna-Maria Helsing, conductor Dennis Kim, violin Liszt: Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe Glass: Violin Concerto Schubert: Symphony No. 4 ”Tragic”
Fri 30 Mar 7 pm Tampere Hall Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor Arto Satukangas, piano López: América Salvaje Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 Elgar: Enigma Variations
Thu 5 Apr 7 pm Tampere Hall Hannu Lintu, conductor Anna Jobrant Dalnäs, soprano Tuva Semmingsen, alto Sune Hjerrild, tenor Petri Lindroos, bass Yves Saelens, evangelist Geert Smits, Jesus Tampere Philharmonic Choir Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, concertmaster Bach: St John Passion
Fri 27 Apr 7 pm Tampere Hall Hannu Lintu, conductor Benjamin Schmid, violin Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 Reger: Violin Concerto
Fri 4 May 7 pm Tampere Hall Jan Latham-Koenig, conductor Radek Baborak, horn Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite Atterberg: Horn Concerto Franck: Symphony in D minor
Fri 11 May 7 pm Tampere Hall Josep Caballé-Domenech, conductor Jarmo Hyväkkö, clarinet Berlioz: The Corsair Overture Françaix: Clarinet Concerto Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane Suite No. 2 Debussy: La Mer
Thu 24 May 7 pm Tampere Hall Hannu Lintu, conductor Peter Jablonski, piano Miina-Liisa Värelä, soprano (soloist replaced) Gershwin: Piano Conserto F Major (composition replaced) Mahler: Symphony No. 4
The Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra reserves the right to change the programme or artists where circumstances dictate.
Season ticket for the spring 2012 season 167 € / pensioners 115 € / students 80 € Season ticket is on sale at the Tampere Hall Box Office from 21 November until 18 January. (Dear season ticket customer, please remember to buy spring season ticket before 5 January as to keep your present seat) Bonus: If you buy the season ticket before 9 December, you'll get a free ticket for the 20 January concert:
Fri 20 Jan 7 pm Tampere Hall Hannu Lintu, conductor Cédric Tiberghien, piano Vivier: Orion Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 Stravinsky: Petrushka
