Sunday 13.7.
Sunday 13.7.2025
1. 15.00 Lentiira Church — €27/21
Lentiiran kirkkotie 51 (driving time from the centre approx. 45 min)
NORDIC BEAT – TRAMPA TAKTEN! – POHJOLAN POLJENTO
Sunday 13.7.2025
2. 19.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €33/25 *
VOCES - INNER VOICES
Concert performance for two clowns and string quartet (premier).
The performance centres around Jean Sibelius’s most famous chamber music work,
the String Quartet in D minor ‘Voces intimae’. At the time of composing ‘Voces intimae’,
Sibelius had been diagnosed with a throat tumour, and this greatly influenced his
compositional process. Death and the fears associated with it form a key framework for any
interpretation of ‘Voces intimae’, providing the piece with its central thematic context. This
performance is in Finnish and will be subtitled in English.
The following pieces are heard in the performance:
Jean Sibelius (1865—1957):
String Quartet in D minor, Op. 56 'Voces intimae' (1909)
Lotta Wennäkoski (1970—):
2nd movement from String Quartet 'Flickereth' (2023)
Max Richter (1966—):
On the Nature of Daylight (2004, arr. for string quartet by B. K. Lindgren)
Kaija Saariaho (1952—2023):
Excerpt from Terra Memoria for string quartet (2007)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):
Heiliger Dankgesang from String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 (1825)
The concert performance will last around two hours (including intermission).