Friday 25.7.

Friday 25.7.2025

10.00 Salakamari

The Heart of the Day – violinist Miritza Lundberg talks about her doctoral research (in Finnish).

Friday 25.7.2025

11.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre/Pajakka Hall

Student Concert

  • Students of the Music Courses

Friday 25.7.2025

49. 11.00 Kuhmo Church — €27/21

FROM HOLBERG'S TIME – FRÅN HOLBERGS TID – HOLBERGIN AJOILTA

Kaija Saariaho (1952—2023):

Terra Memoria for string orchestra (2009)

Baroque Dances from Holberg's Time

Edvard Grieg (1843—1907):

Holberg Suite, Op. 40 (1884)

Friday 25.7.2025

50. 13.00 Tuupala Primary School — €12

CHAMBER MUSIC WORKSHOP – KAMMARMUSIK VERKSTAD – KAMARIMUSIIKIN TYÖPAJA

W. A. Mozart (1756—1791):

Piano Quartet in E flat, K. 493 (1786)

Edward Elgar (1857—1934):

Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84 (1918–19)

Friday 25.7.2025

51. 15.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €27/21

NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE – NOBELPRISTAGARE – NOBELISTEJA

PABLO NERUDA 1971

Andrea Clearfield (1960—):

Three Songs for violin and double bass (after poems by Pablo Neruda)

THOMAS MANN 1929
It was Visconti’s film based on Mann’s Death in Venice that finally immortalised the
Adagietto from Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.

Gustav Mahler (1860—1911):

Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 (1902, arr. for violin and piano by Otto Wittenbecher)

FRANS EMIL SILLANPÄÄ 1939

Aimo Mustonen (1909—1994):

Sillanpään marssilaulu (Sillanpää Marching Song) (1940, lyrics: Frans Emil Sillanpää)

BOB DYLAN 2016

Bob Dylan (1941—):

Knockin' On Heaven's Door (1973, instrumentation Minna Pensola)

SELMA LAGERLÖF 1909

Elfrida Andrée (1841—1929):

Forgive me from the Opera Frithiof's Saga (1894–95, lyrics: Selma Lagerlöf)

ERNEST MILLER HEMINGWAY 1954
“I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and
counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent. We played
chamber music - someone came in to play the violin; my sister played the viola, and
mother the piano. That cello - I played it worse than anyone on earth.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Paris Review (Spring 1958)

W. A. Mozart (1756—1791):

Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478 (1785)

Friday 25.7.2025

52. 18.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €33/25

ROMANI VIRTUOSI – ROMSKA VIRTUOSER – ROMANIVIRTUOOSIT

Agnes Tschetschulin (1859—1942):

Alla Zingaresca for violin and piano (1891)

Joseph Haydn (1732—1809):

Piano Trio No. 39 in G, Hob. XV:25 'All'ongarese' (1795)

Elena Kats-Chernin (1957—):

Gypsy Ramble for viola, cello and piano (1996)

Intermission

The Miritza Lundberg Ensemble brings Kuhmo Chamber Music a dazzling array of

virtuoso violin melodies, Romani songs, both the traditional and the slightly more rock-
and-roll variety, and a breathtaking display of Romani traditional dance.

  • Miritza Lundberg Ensemble

THE KONE FOUNDATION HAS SUPPORTED THE PERFORMANCE AND CONCERT OF ROMANI MUSIC IN KUHMO.

Friday 25.7.2025

53. 21.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €27/21

SUBLIME SCHUBERT – SUBLIM SCHUBERT – SCHUBERTIN SULOA

Franz Schubert (1797—1828):

String Quintet in C, D. 956 (1828)