Wednesday 15.7.
Wednesday 15.7.2026
10.00 Salakamari
The Heart of the Day - soprano Helena Juntunen (this session will in Finnish, admission free)
Wednesday 15.7.2026
11. 11.00 Kuhmo Church — €28/21
Jubilee
In 2026, we celebrate 270 years since Mozart’s birth…
W. A. Mozart (1756—1791):
Piano Trio in E, K. 542 (1788)
…Kurtág’s 100th birthday...
György Kurtág (1926—):
12 Microludes, Op. 13 for string quartet (1977)
… 100 years since the death of Eino Leino...
Toivo Kuula (1883—1918):
Tuijotin tulehen kauan (Long gazed I into the Fire), Op. 2 No. 2 (1904–07, lyrics: Eino Leino)
Leevi Madetoja (1887—1947):
Serenade, Op. 16 No. 1 (lyrics: Eino Leino)
Oskar Merikanto (1868—1924):
Omenankukat (Apple Blossoms), Op. 53 No. 1 (1905, lyrics: Eino Leino)
...and 250 since the American Declaration of Independence.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829—1869):
Paraphrase on National Airs, Op. 48 for piano 'Union' (1862)
Wednesday 15.7.2026
12.30 Tuupala Primary School
Student Concert (admission free)
- Students of the music courses
Wednesday 15.7.2026
12. 15.00 Tuupala Primary School — €28/21
Anniversary banquet: fish course
Jouni Kaipainen (1956—2015):
Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 102 '…The Pike Rose to the Spruce's Crone…' (2014)
Franz Schubert (1797—1828):
Piano Quintet in A, D. 667 'Trout' (1819)
Wednesday 15.7.2026
13. 18.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €33/25
Rituals I
John Adams (1947—):
Shaker Loops (1978, arr. for string orchestra 1983)
Igor Stravinsky (1882—1971):
Le Sacre du Printemps (the Rite of Spring) for two pianos (1912–13)
Interval
Wednesday 15.7.2026
14. 21.00 Kuhmo Church — €28/21 **
Celebration of love
Langsamer Satz – Webern’s slow movement for string quartet is an autobiographical work radiating with the joy of a young man intoxicated with love: Webern had spent Whitsun hiking with his cousin Wilhelmine Mörtl and ecstatically noted in his diary that “Two souls were united as one!”. In 1912, the young lovers were finally wed in holy matrimony.
Anton Webern (1883—1945):
Langsamer Satz for string quartet (1905)
Marguerite Monnot (1903—1961):
Hymne à l'amour (1949, lyrics: Édith Piaf)
Edward Elgar (1857—1934):
Salut d'amour, Op. 12 for violin and piano (1888)
“On the cover you must have a picture, namely a head with a pistol to it. Now you can form some conception of the music! I’ll send you my photograph for the purpose. You can use the blue coat, yellow breeches, and top-boots, since you seem to like colour-printing””, wrote Johannes Brahms to his publisher upon completion of his Piano Quartet No. 3 in an apparent reference to Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, in which a young man commits suicide because of unrequited love.
Johannes Brahms (1833—1897):
Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 (1855–75)