Wednesday 12.7.
Wednesday 12.7.2023
10.00 Salakamari
The Heart of the day
Erik Bosgraaf, a recorder wizzard (in English)
Wednesday 12.7.2023
12. 11.00 Kuhmo Church — €25/21
The End
”All my strength is gone, I’m old and weak”
Joseph Haydn, 1803
Joseph Haydn (1732—1809):
String Quartet No. 68 in D minor, Op. 103 (1803, unfinished)
Josquin Desprez composed this lament on the occasion of the death of his predecessor
Johannes Ockeghem in February 1497.
Josquin Desprez (1450—1521):
Nymphes des bois (1497?, arr. for recorder and string quartet)
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906—1975):
Sonata, Op. 147 for viola and piano (1975, terminally ill, two weeks before his death)
Wednesday 12.7.2023
12.30 Tuupala Primary School
Student concert
The program will be published during music courses
- Students of the Music Courses
Wednesday 12.7.2023
13. 15.00 Tuupala Primary School — €25/21
The Beginning
Runosong from life
The alchemist Paracelsus claimed to have created an artificial human creature, which he
named a homunculus. The creature stood only 30 cm tall and could generally be found
working with a golem. However, Paracelsus’s homunculus eventually turned against his master
and ran away. Homunculus was created out of bones, sperm, pieces of skin and animal
hairs. These were all buried in the ground and surrounded with horse manure, the purpose
of which was to keep the mixture warm. According to the instructions, after forty days the
homunculus was ready.
Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958—):
Homunculus for string quartet (2007)
Outi Tarkiainen (1985—):
The Lustful Mother for mezzo-soprano, string quartet and piano (2021)
Wednesday 12.7.2023
14. 18.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €30/25
The beginning of the end
Brahms gave Aho his roots; Aho gave the clarinet its wings.
Kalevi Aho (1949—):
Clarinet Quintet (1998)
Intermission
Calliope Tsoupaki (1963—):
The First Lament of Ekavi for Ganassi recorder solo (2009, rev. 2020)
Brahms had already announced his intention to retire from composition, claiming that
his creative powers had deserted him after the completion of his G-major String Quintet
in 1890. After hearing the clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld’s playing, however, he went on to
compose a great many new masterpieces.
Johannes Brahms (1833—1897):
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 (1891)
Wednesday 12.7.2023
60. 19.00 Kajaani Church — €25/21 **
Kirkkokatu 19, Kajaani (Driving time from Kuhmo approx. 11⁄2 hours)
The most hummable hymn tunes, the most well-loved songs, virtuosic violin solos, organ improvisations as you’ve never heard them before, three of Kuhmo’s most scintillating artists pay a visit to Kajaani.
Dinner will be available before and after the concert at Original Sokos Hotel Valjus (Kauppakatu 20).
Table reservations: raflaamo.fi or sales.kajaanivuokatti@sokoshotels.fi.
Tickets, information: Kuhmo Chamber Music, tel. +358 40 169 6509.
THIS CONCERT IS IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE KAJAANI PARISH AND OSUUSKAUPPA MAAKUNTA.
Wednesday 12.7.2023
15. 21.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €25/21
Sandman
Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who wrote the first biography of Bach, claims that Bach originally wrote the Goldberg variations for his Dresden-based patron Count Keyserling, who suffered from debilitating insomnia. On sleepless nights, the count
would ask his harpsichordist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg to play “calming, good-humoured” music to send him to sleep.
J. S. Bach (1685—1750):
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1741–42, arr. for violin, viola and violoncello da spalla)
During this concert, Bridget Allaire-Mäki's paintings inspired by Bach’s music will be projected onto the back wall of the stage.