Bangkok, Thailand, August 05, 2025 / TRAVELINDEX / On the auspicious occasion of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, The Queen Mother’s Birthday, 12 August 2025, the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, with the support of the Department of Cultural Promotion, Ministry of Culture and B. Grimm, presents the Royal Elegance. This concert will take place on Thursday, August 14, 2025, at 7:30 PM at the Thailand Cultural Centre, Main Hall. The RBSO wishes to express its heartfelt gratitude and unwavering loyalty to Her Majesty. With boundless compassion and exceptional wisdom, Her Majesty has devoted herself to numerous royal duties for the benefit and well-being of the Thai people across the country.

This concert will be under the baton of Valentin Egel, acclaimed General Music Director of the Croatian National Theatre and the Rijeka Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Egel has previously conducted the RBSO through the astounding 2024 production of Madam Butterfly. The concert begins with Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D major. Performed by guest soloist Sueye Park, First prize winner of the XIII International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition. Park, born in South Korea, is an internationally acclaimed soloist and chamber musician. She began violin studies at age four and trained with Ulf Wallin in Berlin and Clive Brown in Vienna. Park has performed with leading orchestras such as the Seoul Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, and Helsinki Philharmonic, and collaborated with renowned artists including Osmo Vänskä, Gary Hoffman, and Pietari Inkinen. She currently performs on a 1753 G.B. Guadagnini violin, on loan from the Samsung Foundation of Culture.

The second half of the concert will feature Jean Sibelius ‘ Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major. Sibelius wrote his Fifth Symphony between 1914 and 1917, in the years leading up to Finland’s declaration of independence. Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony begins with the breadth and majesty of a vast, unfolding Nordic landscape. A mystical horn call rises and falls in an expansive arc, which opens the door to all that follows. Picked up by the woodwinds, the motif begins to fragment, spin, and develop with a sense of self-organising inevitability. The Fifth Symphony evokes nature’s divine logic. This is music influenced by the bleak, remote landscapes of northern latitudes, where perceptions of time may be altered by seasonal cycles which involve extended periods of darkness alternating with light. It is his personal experience with nature that inspired the iconic “Swan Theme”, which forms the triumphant climax of the final movement. The Fifth Symphony concludes with six searching musical thunderbolts, surrounded by haunting silence.

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