Sunday 19.7.

Sunday 19.7.2026

10.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre/Cafeteria Juttua

The Heart of the Day - Composer Osmo Tapio Räihälä talks about the Festival's program (this session will in Finnish, admission free).

Osmo Tapio Räihälä

Sunday 19.7.2026

30. 11.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €28/21

Piano party

Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665—1729):

Chaconne from Pièces de clavecin, Livre 2 (1707)

Petteri Pitko

J. C. Bach (1735—1782):

Sonata in G, Op. 15 No. 5 for two keyboards (1778)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):

Grosse Fuge in B flat, Op. 133 (1825–26, arr. for piano four hands by composer)

Sergey Prokofiev (1891—1953):

Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat, Op. 83 (1942)

Olli Mustonen

WEEKLY SEASON TICKET I ENDS/WEEKLY SEASON TICKET II BEGINS. (Concerts 1, 10, 18, 26, 42, 46, 56 and 57 are not included in the weekly season tickets.)

Sunday 19.7.2026

31. 15.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €28/21

Christmas

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660—1725):

Christmas Cantata (1695, lyrics: Antonio Ottoboni)

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840—1893):

December - Christmas from The Seasons, Op. 37b for piano (1876)

Irina Zahharenkova

Jouni Kaipainen (1956—2015):

Luminoso, Op. 79 for clarinet and piano trio (2006)

Arcangelo Corelli (1653—1713):

Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6 No. 8 'Christmas Concerto' (ca. 1690)

Jean Sibelius (1865—1957):

Giv mig ej glans (We ask for nothing Rich or Rare), Op. 1 No. 4 (1909, lyrics: Zacharias Topelius) (Hymn-along in Finnish)

Sunday 19.7.2026

32. 17.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €33/25

Mother's day

Jean Sibelius (1865—1957):

Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte (The Girl returned from Meeting her Lover), Op. 37 No. 5 (1900–01, lyrics: J. L. Runeberg)

The 16-year-old Anton Webern composed these two pieces for his mother, who was a cellist. Very soon after this, Webern’s harmonic language changed completely as he entered the uncharted territories of atonality.

Anton Webern (1883—1945):

Two Pieces for cello and piano (1899)

“One of my favourite pieces of music for solo violin is the Presto from Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor. On the anniversary of my mother’s death, I composed six more pieces to make a suite. The Bach is quoted in the movement ‘Rest These Hands’ which takes its title from three poems my mother wrote in the last year of her life.”

Anna Clyne

I rest these hands
World weary
Misunderstood

I rest these hands
Toiled weary
Long before they shoul

These hands
Palmed to palmed
With wonder

Surrendered

Colleen Clyne

Anna Clyne (1980—):

Rest These Hands for violin (2009)

Elina Vähälä

Accompanied by his mother, Mozart had set out from Salzburg in September 1777 in search of the position his father was sure would bring him fame. The journey—which took him through Mannheim, Paris, and Munich—can hardly be regarded as a success: Mozart spent too much money and found no position at all. The true cataclysm, though, was that his mother became ill and died in Paris in July 1778.

Wolfgang wrote seven violin sonatas during this trip. The Sonata in E minor is wistful music, full of a depth of feeling absent from the other five sonatas, and few commentators have been able to resist associating it with the death of Mozart’s mother.

W. A. Mozart (1756—1791):

Sonata No. 21 in E minor, K. 304 for violin and piano (1778)

Aarre Merikanto (1893—1958):

Keinutan kaikua (Caressing the Echo), Op. 16 No. 3 (1935, lyrics: L. Onerva)

Franz Schubert (1797—1828):

Die Mutter Erde, D. 788 (1823, lyrics: Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg)

Johannes Brahms (1833—1897):

Heimweh II 'O wüsst ich doch den Weg zurück', Op. 63 No. 8 (1874, lyrics: Klaus Groth)

Interval

Christiane Brahms was a charming, lively personality, a domestic goddess, dearly loved by all her children. (Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim even commented favourably on her cooking skills!) She provided her son Johannes with safety and stability; she was always very proud and supportive of him. Christiane’s death in 1865 affected Johannes greatly; in fact, this was the impetus that spurred the creation of Ein deutsches Requiem and a new trio. The slow movement of the trio is perhaps the most explicit dedication to his mother’s memory, but throughout the work one can hear references to a folksong that Johannes’s mother taught him as a child.

Johannes Brahms (1833—1897):

Trio in E flat, Op. 40 for violin, French horn and piano (1865)

Sunday 19.7.2026

33. 20.00 Kuhmo Church — €28/21

Condolences

J. S. Bach (1685—1750):

Choral Prelude 'Herzlich tut mich verlangen', BWV 727 for organ (1740)