Saturday 27.7.

Saturday 27.7.2024

10.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre/Cafeteria Juttua

The Heart of the Day – Valeri Tolstov and Erik Higgins shed light on this evening's La Folia concert (in English).

  • Valeri Tolstov
  • Erik Higgins

Saturday 27.7.2024

54. 11.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €25/21

BREAKTHROUGHS

Schubert had already written around eleven string quartets, mostly intended for performance only in circles of his family and friends. But his big breakthrough came with the Quartet Movement D. 703, which heralded the beginnings of a fresh style and opened the door into a new world of inspiration.

Franz Schubert (1797—1828):

String Quartet No. 12 in C minor, D. 703 'Quartett-Satz' (1820)

Francesco Darmanin (1995—):

The Sudden Lightness for piano quartet (Winner of the Vladimir Mendelssohn Composition Competition 2023, Finnish premier)

Franz Schubert (1797—1828):

String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D. 804 'Rosamunde' (1824)

Saturday 27.7.2024

55. 16.00 Tuupala Primary School — €25/21

MYSTICS AND ROSICRUSIANS

Erik Satie was a curious, gauche figure with a penchant for grey velvet suits (he owned a total of seven such suits, all identical) and umbrellas, and legend has it that he only ever ate white food. He was also fascinated by mysticism and cults. At the time he composed Gnossiennes, he was involved in the activities of a gnostic sect.

Erik Satie (1866—1925):

Gnossiennes, six pieces (1889–97)

Alexander Scriabin (1872—1915):

Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 'White Mass' (1911–12)

Hildegard von Bingen (1098—1179):

Antiphon

Anonymous

The Dark is my Delight(14. century)

Claude Debussy (1862—1918):

Sonata in G minor for violin and piano (1916–17)

Saturday 27.7.2024

56. 18.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €30/25

DARLING ANIMALS

A riotous concert full of joy and festival favourites. How fast will The Flight of the Bumblebee be today? How beautiful the swan’s song? Rounding off the concert is Schubert’s Trout Quintet, a permanent fixture that over the years has become nothing short of a national anthem at Kuhmo Chamber Music.

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835—1921):

La cygne (Swan) for cello and piano (1887)

Tarquinio Merula (1595—1665):

La Lusignuola, Op. 1 No. 2 from Il primo libro delle canzoni (1615)

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841—1894):

Villanelle des petits canards (1889, lyrics: Rosemonde Gérard)

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841—1894):

Les cigales (1889, lyrics: Rosemonde Gérard)

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841—1894):

Ballade des gros dindons (1889, lyrics: Edmond Rostand)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844—1908):

Flight of the Bumblebee from the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1900, arr. for accordion by Adrian Dante)

Joseph Haydn (1732—1809):

Finale: Allegro con spirito from String Quartet in D, Op. 50 No. 6 'Frog' (1787)

Vladimir Mendelssohn (1949—2021):

Urban Lark No. 2 for piano quartet (2019)

Intermission

Franz Schubert (1797—1828):

Piano Quintet in A, D. 667 'Trout' (1819)

THIS CONCERT’S FRIEND IS THE PATRON’S ASSOCIATION OF THE KUHMO CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Saturday 27.7.2024

57. 21.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €25/21 *

LA FOLIA À LA YEREVAN

The festival ends with an extraordinary collaboration between a traditional Baroque ensemble and exotic instruments from across the globe, including the soulful duduk, the vibrant zurna, the distinctive kalyuka, the virtuosic tabla, and the lyrical sitar! 

This concert reimagines Vivaldi's ‘La Folia’ and other Baroque works, recontextualising them alongside newly written variations based on Armenian and other folk tunes and fully improvised sections.