Monday 17.7.
Monday 17.7.2023
10.00 Salakamari
The Heart of the day
Outi Tarkiainen talks about her compositions and about her work as a composer (in Finnish).
Monday 17.7.2023
35. 11.00 Kuhmo Church — €25/21
Cleansing the palate
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909—1969):
Quartet for four violins (1949)
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685—1759):
Flute Concerto No. 3 in G minor, HWV 287 (ca. 1704–05)
Francis Poulenc (1899—1963):
Sextet for wind quintet and piano (1932–39)
Monday 17.7.2023
36. 15.00 Tuupala Primary School — €25/21
Risky reading
Lewis Carroll’s short stories were banned in China in 1931 because it was deemed “unfitting
for animals to speak like humans”.
Mikko Heiniö (1948—):
Piano Quintet (1993, the text slightly adapted fragments from Through the Looking-Glass (1872) by Lewis Carroll)
”- - and then the customary As on the piano, the plucking and tuning of the violin, the
setting up of the music. Then I remember how they looked at one another, glanced round
at the audience and began to play. He took the first chord. ( - - )
- They played Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer Sonata’. Do you know its first movement, the presto?
You know it? he burst out. - Ah! It’s a fearful thing, that sonata.”
Leo Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata, translated by David McDuff
Leoš Janáček (1854—1928):
String Quartet No. 1, JW VII/8 ‘Kreutzer’ (1923)
Monday 17.7.2023
37. 18.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €30/25
Working women
Outi Tarkiainen (1985—):
The Downfall of Judith Shakespeare (2023, commissioned by the Kuhmo Chamber Music, premier)
Amanda Maier-Röntgen (1853—1894):
Piano Trio in E flat (1874)
Intermission
Charlotte Bray (1982—):
Crossing Faultlines for soprano and piano (2021)
Helvi Leiviskä (1902—1982):
Piano Quartet in A, Op. 1 (1925–26, rev. 1936)
THIS CONCERT’S FRIEND IS THE CITY OF KUHMO.
Monday 17.7.2023
38. 21.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €25/21
Sparkle
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27/2 'Moonlight' (1801)
Osvaldo Golijov (1960—):
Night Messengers from Falling Out of Time (2019, arr. for flute and string quintet by composer)
Chen Yi (1953—):
Sparkle for octet (1992)