Programme

“Damnably ugly, my boy, why do you write such things?” “Because I like them.” “But you
can’t like them, they’re not music.” “I shouldn’t write them if I didn’t like them.”
A conversation between Vaughan-Williams and his teacher, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872—1958):

Piano Quintet in C minor (1903)

Tuesday 11.7.2023

9. 15.00 Tuupala Primary School — €25/21

All Quiet on the Ukrainian Front?

Sergey Prokofiev (1891—1953):

String Quartet No. 2 in F, Op. 92 (1941)

Danel Quartet

Myroslav Skoryk (1938—2020):

Melody in A minor for strings (1982)

Reinhold Glière (1875—1956):

String Octet in D, Op. 5 (1902)

Tuesday 11.7.2023

10. 18.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €25/21

Shakespeare

Charlotte Bray (1982—):

Those Secret Eyes for piano trio (2014)

Storioni Trio

Gerald Finzi (1901—1956):

Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18, five Shakespeare songs for voice and piano (1929–42)

After hearing Beethoven perform the slow movement of this quartet (presumably on the
piano), his close friend Karl Amenda claims he said to the composer that it reminded him

of lovers breaking up, to which Beethoven replied, “Good! I was thinking of the burial

scene from Romeo and Juliet when I wrote it.”

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):

String Quartet No. 1 in F, Op. 18/1 (1798–1800)

Kamus Quartet

Tuesday 11.7.2023

11. 20.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €30/25

Goethe

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):

Overture from Egmont, Op. 84 (1809–10, arr. for two pianos eight hands by Franz Xaver Chwatal)

To the distant girl
When, in my quiet soul,
I sing soft songs to myself,
How I feel that she is missing -
She, the only one whom I have chosen.
If I could hope that she would sing
What I have so gladly entrusted to her,
Ah! From this breast, this constriction,
Joyous songs would burst forth loudly.
Wolfgang von Goethe’s lyric to Fanny Mendelssohn