Symphony Tacoma: Elgar & Sibelius

Edward Elgar — Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Jean Sibelius — Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43
Marie Samuelsson — The Eros Effect & Solidarity
Marie Samuelsson — The Love Trilogy

Efe Baltacıgil, cello

Samuelsson – “The Eros Effect & Solidarity” from The Love Triology (US premiere)
Elgar – Cello Concerto
Sibelius – Symphony No. 2

Marie Samuelsson’s "The Eros Effect and Solidarity" highlights the human capacity to respond in solidarity during social movements. Seattle Symphony principal cellist Efe Baltacıgil makes his Symphony Tacoma debut in Elgar’s contemplative and elegiac Cello Concerto. The program concludes with Sibelius’s beautiful Symphony No. 2 of 1902, hailed by many as a clarion call to Finland’s independence, but called “a confession of the soul” by the composer himself.

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