Sousa & Altstaedt

This music erects a tomb – the »Santo Sepolcro« into which the faithful place the corpse of their crucified Savior. Bohuslav Martinů’s tragic, disturbing Double Concerto was conceived for the Christian Holy Week – it translates the Passion into universal human experiences that connect all of us. Analogously, the solo instrument in Grażyna Bacewicz’s twelve-tone Cello Concerto connects all of the orchestral elements on an abstract, musical level to form a large, colourful mosaic. Antonín Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony then forms a large contrast to it – it simply bubbles over with joie de vivre and m