Young Euro Classic 2023: Highlights

Highlights from Young Euro Classic 2023, live recorded at the Konzerthaus Berlin.
This year’s festival appearance by the young Ukrainian musicians is certainly one to look forward to: The orchestra is led by the internationally sought-after conductor Oksana Lyniv. The Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine presents the Odessa Rhapsody for Two Violins and Symphony Orchestra by the Ukrainian-born composer Evgeni Orkin, which is a German premiere and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, a work whose dramatic development from the darkness of C minor to the light of C Major also offers a musical sign of hope in these dispiriting times of war.
Compared to Ukraine, Estonia is a very small country, but one with a large – and very vivacious – musical tradition! No wonder the Orchestra of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre presents itself at Young Euro Classic with a programme focusing on music from its homeland. Arvo Pärt's unmistakable musical style is perfectly encapsulated in his work Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet hätte. All this surrounds a classical “island”, for which the Estonians have chosen the sparkling Piano Concerto in D Major by Joseph Haydn.