Day 13 - Kuhmo International Chamber Music Festival 2010

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Just a day to go after today.

Violinist Vanessa Szigeti.

Visitors from Hämeenlinna cooking us lunch.

Driving to Lentiira Church.

Concert at the beautiful Lentiira Church.

Back to Kuhmo for the evening concert.

Cellist Alexander Gebert with pianist Juhani Lagerspetz.

FRIDAY 23.7.

Zito the Magician

To amuse His Royal Majesty he will change water into wine.

Frogs into footmen. Beetles into bailiffs. And make a Minister out of a rat. He bows, and daisies grow from his finger-tips.

And a talking bird sits on his shoulder.

There.

Think up something else, demands His Royal Majesty.

Think up a black star. So he thinks up a black star.

Think up dry water. So he thinks up dry water.

Think up a river bound with straw-bands. So he does.

There.

Then along comes a student and asks: Think up sine alpha greater than one.

And Zito grows pale and sad. Terribly sorry. Sine is

Between plus one and minus one. Nothing you can do about that.

And he leaves the great royal empire, quietly weaves his way

Through the throng of courtiers, to his home in a nutshell.

Miroslav Holub

Translated by George Theiner

57 11.00 Kuhmo Church €14.50/10.50

W.A. Mozart (1756–1791):

Serenata notturna in D, K. 239 for Strings and Timpani 

Bindere, Kremer, Grishin, Rubinas, Pushkarev, Kremerata Baltica

String Quintet in E flat, K. 614

Chilingirian Quartet, Gotlibovich

58 13.30 Kuhmo Arts Centre €14.50/10.50

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827):

Piano Trio in B flat, Op. 97 "Archduke" 

Storioni Trio

String Quartet in E flat, Op. 127 

Chilingirian Quartet

59 16.00 Lentiira Church €14.50/10.50

Joseph Haydn (1732–1809):

Divertimento a 3 in E flat, H. IV:5 for French Horn, Violin and Cello 

Joulain, W. Vossen, M. Vossen

Teppo Hauta-aho (1941–):

Kadenza for Double Bass Solo

de Groot

Benjamin Britten (1913–1976):

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for Oboe

Gleisner

George Enescu (1881–1955):

Romanian Rhapsody in A, Op. 11/1 for String Quartet

Enescu Quartet

60 18.00 Kuhmo Church €14.50/10.50

Robert Schumann (1810–1856):

Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 for French Horn and Piano

Joulain, H. Kärkkäinen

Fügen über den Namen Bach, Op. 60/1-2 

Pedrini

Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat, Op. 47 

Storioni Trio, Gotlibovich

61 20.15 Kuhmo Arts Centre €36.50/22.50

Zito the Magician's Concise Dictionary of the Cold War

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953):

Visions fugitives, Op. 22 for Piano 

Lagerspetz

George Gershwin (1898–1937):

Lullaby for String Quartet

Chilingirian Quartet

Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–1975):

Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 

Storioni Trio

Intermission

Petar Christoskov (1917–):

Bulgarian Rhapsody for Solo Violin

Two Caprices for Solo Violin

Roussev

Conlon Nancarrow (1912–1997):

Tango? 

Lindfors

Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998):

Schall und Hall

Malmivirta

David Liptak (1949–):

Piano Roll Blues for Piano seven Hands

Kemppainen, M. Kärkkäinen, Gröndahl, Schmidt

György Ligeti (1923–2006):

Old Hungarian Parlor Dances 

Thomsen, Sundqvist, F. Szigeti, V. Szigeti, Deschamps, Lee, de Groot

Intermission

Charles Ives (1874–1954):

Tsiaj from Piano Trio No. 86

Heikinheimo, Lehto, Schmidt

Giya Kancheli (1935–):

Silent Prayer 

Kremer, Dirvanauskaite, Pushkarev, Kremerata Baltica

Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992):

Ave Maria for Oboe and Piano

Gleisner, Jumppanen

Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978):

Waltz from "Masquerade" for Piano 

Gröndahl

Kurt Weill (1900–1950):

Alabama Song (arr. for ensemble and voice by M. Feldman)

Hata, W. Vossen, Mendelssohn, Pirinen, Malmivirta, Ferchen, van de Roer, de Groot