Saturday 20.7.

Saturday 20.7.2024

10.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre/Cafeteria Juttua

The Heart of the Day – Osmo Tapio Räihälä talks about the Festival's program (in Finnish).

Saturday 20.7.2024

25. 11.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €25/21

BON APPÉTIT!

Leonard Bernstein (1918—1990):

La Bonne Cuisine (Four Recipes) suite for voice and piano (1947, based on Émile Dumont's cookbook La Bonne Cuisine Française)

Contemporary colleagues criticised Erik Satie’s piano works for their lack of any discernible form. Infuriated by these comments, Satie wrote three piano pieces clearly laid out in the form of a pear.

Erik Satie (1866—1925):

Trois morceaux en forme de poire for piano four hands (1903)

Bohuslav Martinů (1890—1959):

La revue de cuisine (The Kitchen Review), H. 161 for reciter, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin, cello and piano (1927, text: Ron Butlin)

Saturday 20.7.2024

26. 15.00 Tuupala Primary School — €25/21

SWEET SONATAS

Claude Debussy (1862—1918):

Sonata No. 2 for flute, viola and harp (1915)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):

Sonata No. 4 in C, Op. 102 No. 1 for cello and piano (1815)

Sergey Prokofiev (1891—1953):

Sonata in D, Op. 94 for flute and piano (1943)

Saturday 20.7.2024

27. 18.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €30/25

TANGOMANIA

Viera Janárčeková (1941—2023):

Illusion from Tangomania for violin and accordion (2013–14)

Tom Lehrer (1928—):

Masochism Tango (1959, lyrics: Tom Lehrer)

Astor Piazzolla (1921—1992):

Le Grand Tango

Richard Dubugnon (1968—):

Rundtanz, Op. 93 for piano sextet

Intermission

Toivo Kärki (1915—1992):

Siks oon mä suruinen (1944, lyrics: Kerttu Mustonen)

Ilkka Kuusisto (1933—):

Tango in my Mind for flute and cello (1994)

Astor Piazzolla (1921—1992):

Yo Soy María

Astor Piazzolla (1921—1992):

Se termino (C'est Fini)

Astor Piazzolla (1921—1992):

Escualo

Astor Piazzolla (1921—1992):

Romance del diablo

Astor Piazzolla (1921—1992):

Violentango

Saturday 20.7.2024

28. 21.00 Kuhmo Church — €25/21

SUNSET

A concert in the evening dusk – the moonlight is beautiful, the transfigured night touching.

Rouzbeh Raffie (1981—):

Karân for cello and live electronics (2021)

Claude Debussy (1862—1918):

Clair de lune from Suite Bergamasque for piano (1890)

Jean Sibelius (1865—1957):

Illalle (To Evening), Op. 17 No. 6 from Seven songs (1898, lyrics: A. V. Koskimies)

Richard Dehmel (1863—1920):

Poem Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) from Weib und Welt (Woman and World, 1896)

Arnold Schönberg (1874—1951):

Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4 for string sextet (1899)