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First briefly returning to last night - socialising after Pekka Kuusisto's
Carte Blanche performance with Iiro Rantala...
Carte Blanche performance with Iiro Rantala...
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| Kuhmo Festival Finance and Administration Director Sari Rusanen (l) with flautist Janne Thomsen. |
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| Pianists Iiro Rantala and Roope Gröndahl. |
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| Flautist Janne Thomsen.
Between the Gasteig (Munich), Wigmore Hall (London), Kioi Hall (Tokyo), Chatelet (Paris), Great Conservatory Hall
(Moscow), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and the Philharmonie (Berlin), Janne Thomsen, Danish flautist, appears as a
solist world wide and performs with musicians such as Pierre Laurent Aimard, Yuri Bashmet, Joshua Bell, Jana
Bouskova, Bengt Forsberg, Ivry Gitlis, Natalia Gutman, Hans Werner Henze, Steven Isserlis, Janine Jansen, Gidon
Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Michala Petri, Julian Rachlin, Peter Schreier, Maurice Steger, Maxim
Vengerov and Radovan Vladkovik.
The English Chamber Orchestra, The Czech Philharmonic, Kremerata Baltica, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Salzburg Camerata, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Tel Aviv Soloists, Kuhmo Virtuosi, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and the Moscou
Soloists have invited her as a soloist.
She has won the Danish “Young Musician of the Year Award”, the first of a whole string of major successes at major
international competitions; Prize Winner in Prague, Bayreuth, Rome, Vienna, Paris and Boston.
Her studies were at the Royal Academy of Music in London with W. Bennett and the Amadeus Quartet and the Paris
Conservatoire with M. Bourgue and A. Marion. In Denmark with Lise Stolarczyk and Toke Lund Christiansen.
Janne Thomsen taught at the Mozarteum in Salzburg since 2004-2007, but is from September 2008 starting a new flute
class at the Hochschule für Musik – Luzern. She is founder of the Holstebro International Music Festival – Klassiske Dage
- in her native Denmark, which took place for the first time in 2005. (www.cadenza-concert.at)
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And today, we missed the first half of the first concert for the day, had to wait for the interval:
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| Before the interval... |
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| Natalia - our guide at Juminkeko Foundation, which is an organisation dedicated to all things Kalevala. |
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| Clarinetist Christoffer Sundqvist. |
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| Percussionist Tim Ferchen. |
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| Violinist Antti Tikkanen. |
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| Cellist David Cohen and pianist Juhani Lagerspetz. |
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| Composer Krzystof Penderecki |
Krzysztof Penderecki born November 23, 1933 in Dębica, is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was
followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these works exhibit novel compositional techniques. Since the
1970s Penderecki's style has changed to encompass a post-Romantic idiom.
He has won prestigious awards including Grammy Awards in 1987 and 1998 and 2001, and the Grawemeyer Award for
Music Composition in 1992.
As well as the works already mentioned, his compositions include four operas, eight symphonies and other orchestral
pieces, a variety of instrumental concertos, choral settings of mainly religious texts, as well as chamber and instrumental
works. (Wikipedia)
WEDNESDAY 21.7.
The Trigger
45 11.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre €14.50/10.50
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827):
Piano Sonata No. 20 in G, Op. 49/2
Jumppanen
Too good to avoid the finale of the piano sonata, it was to become the minuet of the septet. Due to some faulty numbering, this piece appears to have been written AFTER the Septet. Sometimes the experts get it wrong...
Septet in E flat, Op. 20
Lethiec, Luoma, Tapani, Martin, Gotlibovich, Helmerson, de Groot
Beethoven’s Septet provoked a veritable outcry in Vienna. From the carriage horsemen to the circles of her majesty Maria Theresa it was the talk of the town and a masterpiece to suit all tastes. It also caught the undivided attention of F. Schubert, the shy genius who dared to challenge the Olympian Beethoven. Schubert found the most creative solution to free himself from the powerful shadow of the Septet – he just added a violin to the Beethoven model (of a symphony for seven instruments).
46 13.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre €19.50/14
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931–):
Hommage à T.S. Eliott
Haller, Sundqvist, Luoma, Tapani, Heikinheimo, F. Szigeti, Stasevska, Pulkkinen, Simon
Intermission
Lockenhaus, the 1980s.The Schubert Octet was to go on a long tour with Gidon Kremer and his friends, so he asked Sofia Gubaidulina to write a piece for the touring stars. And in her quest to free herself from the overwhelming shadow of the Octet, she did like Schubert with the Beethoven Septet: she just added one more musician to the lot. So now there were nine and a confrontation with the masterpiece was avoided. A new model was born...
Franz Schubert (1797–1828):
Octet in F, D 803 for Clarinet, French Horn, Bassoon, String Quartet and Double Bass
Sundqvist, Luoma, Joulain, Michelangelo Quartet, de Groot
47 16.30 Kuhmo Church €19.50/14
Meta4 - Djupsjöbacka
Bach Transcriptions
Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Intermission
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827):
String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131 (arr. for String Orchestra)
Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
48 19.30 Kontio School €14.50/10.50
Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953):
Overture on Hebrew Themes in C minor, Op. 34 for Clarinet, String Quartet and Piano
George Enescu (1881-1955):
Music for Solo Violin
V. Szigeti
Ernő Dohnányi (1877–1960):
Sextet in C, Op. 37 for Piano, Clarinet, French Horn and String Trio
49 21.15 Kuhmo Church €14.50/10.50
Meet Krzysztof Penderecki
Talk about the works to be performed.
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–):
String Quartet No. 2
Enescu Quartet
Divertimento for Violoncello Solo
Gebert
Château Riell, April 2009
VM: Dear maestro, I am looking into the chain reaction phenomenon of pieces by previous composers triggering the inspiration and creative jealousy of the ''next''. Can I assume that it is the case with your Sextet and the one by Dohnányi?
Krzysztof Penderecki: Yes and no; yes, the logic of the instrumentation is related. No, there is no jealousy here.
VM: Then I can only be inspired and jealous about both pieces.
Krzysztof Penderecki: Don't pull the trigger…
Sextet for Clarinet, French Horn, String Trio and Piano
Lethiec, Joulain, Vähälä, Mendelssohn, Cohen, Lagerspetz
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