Wednesday 19.7.
Wednesday 19.7.2023
10.00 Salakamari
The Heart of the day
Kaari Martin & Ismo Eskelinen: Are click-clacking and finger snapping appropriate in classical music (in Finnish)?
Wednesday 19.7.2023
43. 11.00 Kuhmo Church — €25/21
To the core/to the max
Maturity can be a curious thing. Whereas Schubert developed and expanded his formal
language to the extreme, Webern travelled in the opposite direction. Which is more - more
or less?
Anton Webern (1883—1945):
Four Pieces, Op. 7 for violin and piano (1910)
Wednesday 19.7.2023
12.30 Tuupala Primary School
Student concert
The program will be published during music courses
- Students of the Music Courses
Wednesday 19.7.2023
44. 15.00 Tuupala Primary School — €25/21
Sensitively, powerfully
"Full of strength and freshness" said Clara Schumann of Robert’s new composition, "as well as
extremely brilliant and effective". The work was dedicated to Clara, this brilliant pianist.
Robert Schumann (1810—1856):
Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44 (1842)
Wednesday 19.7.2023
45. 18.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €30/25
Passion
Edvard Grieg (1843—1907):
Erotik, Op. 43/5 from Lyric Pieces (1886, arr. for harp and clarinet)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 'Appassionata' (1804–05)
Intermission
The actress Madam Félicité Saillot Desmousseaux, better remembered as the dutiful wife
of César Franck, greeted the arrival of her husband’s Piano Quintet in F minor with public
condemnation, fiery scorn and a deeply professed hatred. Surprisingly, the same reaction
also befell the dedicatee of the work, the composer and pianist Camille Saint-Saëns.
It is hardly surprising to locate an extra-musical reason for such scorching responses - a
young and beautiful private organ and composition student of César Franck’s. Augusta
Holmès, the composer reports, “arouses me in the most unspiritual desires”. Félicité clearly
understood that the pervasive emotionality and infatuation expressed musically was solely
intended for this “impure and seductive student”. And Saint-Saëns, together with Nikolai
Rimsky-Korsakov and almost the entire male faculty of the Paris Conservatoire, was as well
passionately in love with Augusta.
César Franck (1822—1890):
Piano Quintet in F minor (1879)
Wednesday 19.7.2023
46. 21.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €25/21 **
Bedtime stories
Jean Sibelius (1865—1957):
En saga, Symphonic Poem, Op. 9 (1892, arr. for chamber ensemble by Jaakko Kuusisto)
Olli Mustonen (1967—):
Three Trees, Three Sons, a Viena Karelian folktale for narrator and instrumental ensemble (2009)