Anyone who has been to Andalusia, and in particular to Seville or Granada, knows how the days unfold. In short, if at 4 pm the streets are deserted due to the scorching heat, at 10 pm the city fills up, we go to dinner, we celebrate on the cobblestones that still boil with the heat absorbed during the day, we sing and dance. 
A type of life clearly frescoed in La vida breve, a picturesque opera by Manuel de Falla, which sets the beginning of the second act in a small street near a courtyard where Paco and Carmela's wedding takes place on the brilliant notes of the Spanish Dance, which opens this symphonic program.

The same Andalusian echoes of Noches en los jardines de España for piano and orchestra, impressions, paintings that evoke Iberian places, sensations and feelings. If we get burned by the torrid Andalusian boil, don't worry. A breath of icy air refreshes us with Sibelius' Symphony No. 2, truly a sound manifesto of Finnish culture.