Friday 17.7.

Friday 17.7.2026

TODAY’S PARTNER IS OP KASKIMAA.

10.00 Salakamari

The Heart of the Day - In conversation with today’s featured composer, the pianist and conductor Olli Mustonen (this session will in Finnish, admission free)

Friday 17.7.2026

11.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre/Pajakka Hall

Student Concert (admission free)

  • Students of the music courses

Friday 17.7.2026

20. 11.00 Kuhmo Church — €28/21

A Bach Family occasion

Johann Sebastian Bach had twenty children by two different wives. All those who went on to pursue a career in music received a thorough musical education from their father.

JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH: Johann Sebastian’s 19th child, known as the “Bach of Bückeburg”

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732—1795):

Symphony in D minor, W. I/3 for strings and basso continuo (by 1768)

JOHANN CHRISTIAN: The youngest of the family. After his father’s death, his older brother Carl Philip Emanuel took responsibility for his musical education. A close friend of Mozart’s.

Johann Christian Bach (1735—1782):

Sonata in A, Op. 17 No. 5 for fortepiano (1779)

JOHANN BERNHARD: Bach the Elder’s cousin and a colleague of Telemann

Johann Bernhard Bach (1676—1749):

Chaconne No. 3 in G, BWV II Anh. 84 for organ

CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL: The most famous and most successful of all Bach’s children, he worked in Berlin and Hamburg, he was immensely productive and had a great influence on the music of the future.

C. Ph. E. Bach (1714—1788):

Piano Trio in D, H. 530 (1776 or earlier)

WILHELM FRIEDEMANN: The second-eldest child. Despite being an ingenious improviser and composer, he was unable to forge a financially viable music career.

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710—1784):

Viola Duet in G, F. 61 (ca. 1775)

J. S. Bach (1685—1750):

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 for organ (?before 1708)

Friday 17.7.2026

21. 13.00 Tuupala Primary School — €12

Chamber music workshop

W. A. Mozart (1756—1791):

French Horn Quintet in E flat, K. 407 (1782)

Franz Schubert (1797—1828):

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

Friday 17.7.2026

22. 15.00 Tuupala Primary School — €28/21

Cool contrasts - Oulu2026

Domenico Scarlatti (1685—1757):

Sonata in F minor, K. 481 for harpsichord

WINTER (L’INVERNO)

To tremble from cold in the icy snow,
In the harsh breath of a horrid wind;
To run, stamping one's feet every moment,
Our teeth chattering in the extreme cold.


Before the fire to pass peaceful,
Contented days while the rain outside pours down.
We tread the icy path slowly and cautiously,
for fear of tripping and falling.


Then turn abruptly, slip, crash on the ground and,
rising, hasten on across the ice lest it cracks up.

We feel the chill north winds course through the home


despite the locked and bolted doors...
this is winter, which nonetheless

brings its own delights.

Antonio Vivaldi (trans. Armand D'Angour)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678—1741):

Violin Concerto in F minor, Op. 8 No. 4 'Winter' (1723)

Olli Mustonen (1967—):

Sonata for two violins (2026, commissioned by Kuhmo Chamber Music, premiere)

THE COMPOSITION AND ITS WORLD PREMIERE ARE PART OF THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE YEAR CELEBRATIONS. THEY ARE PART OF THE Oulu2026 THEME "COOL CONTRASTS".

Béla Bartók (1881—1945):

Contrasts, BB 116 for violin, clarinet and piano (1938)

Friday 17.7.2026

23. 17.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €33/25 *

Valentine's day

Jean Sibelius (1865—1957):

Vänskapens blomma (The Flower of Friendship), Op. 57 No. 7 (1909, lyrics: Ernst Josephson)

Jean Sibelius (1865—1957):

Var det en dröm? (Was it a dream?), Op. 37 No. 4 (1902, lyrics: Josef Julius Wecksell)

Robert Schumann was fascinated with the idea of collaborating with other composers, and he did this on several occasions, notably with his wife Clara. Having befriended the young Brahms and Albert Dietrich, he suggested writing a collaborative sonata for their common friend Joseph Joachim. Joachim’s personal motto was Frei aber einsam (‘free but alone’). This was to become the name of the work, and the melody F-A-E can be heard in different iterations throughout the work.

Albert Dietrich (1829—1908):

F. A. E. Sonata (Frei aber einsam) mov. I for violin and piano (1853)

Robert Schumann (1810—1856):

F. A. E. Sonata (Frei aber einsam) mov. II for violin and piano (1853)

Johannes Brahms (1833—1897):

F. A. E. Sonata (Frei aber einsam) mov. III for violin and piano (1853)

Robert Schumann (1810—1856):

F. A. E. Sonata (Frei aber einsam) mov. IV for violin and piano (1853)

Vladimir Vysotski (1938—1980):

A Song about a Friend (1967, lyrics: Vladimir Vysotski)

Interval

The pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, founder of the Moscow Conservatory, was a close friend and supporter of Tchaikovsky’s.

But their relationship wasn’t always smooth. Their most famous rift centred around Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, which Rubinstein initially dismissed out of hand. Later, however, he apologised to Tchaikovsky and became a fervent champion of the piece. Their reconciliation was extremely important to Tchaikovsky.

 

Rubinstein’s sudden death in 1881 deeply affected Tchaikovsky. The Piano Trio was composed as an homage to his lost friend, and it was to remain Tchaikovsky’s only contribution to the genre and, as such, a unique tribute to their friendship.

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840—1893):

Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 'In memory of a great artist' (1881–82)

Friday 17.7.2026

24. 20.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €33/25

Soirée royale

Arja Koriseva, crowned Tango Queen of 1989 at the Seinäjoki Tango Festival – the oldest tango festival in the world – and a beloved entertainer with a career spanning many decades, takes the audience on a journey through songs familiar and less familiar, accompanied by a band assembled by multi-instrumentalist Jarmo Julkunen and double bassist Jani Pensola, the core members of the Alakulo Ensemble. This concert will have an interval.

THIS CONCERT’S PARTNER IS OP KASKIMAA.