Day 9 - Kuhmo International Chamber Music Festival 2010

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Yet another day of Kuhmo Spirit and great music and performances.

Natacha Kudritskaya.

Natacha Kudritskaya began her studies in Kiev under Irina Barinova and Igor 

Riabov, and from 2003 to 2007 she was in Alain Planes' class at the Paris 

Conservatoire. After that she went on to study under Stefan Vladar at the 

University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She studied chamber music at 

the Academie Maurice Ravel, where her teacher was Jean Claude Pennetier. 

Kudritskaya has played as soloist with the Kiev Symphony Orchestra and 

appeared at several European music festivals, such as Santander, with Dmitri 

Bashirov and Claudio Martinez-Mehner.

Violist Caroline Donin looking for an empty seat...

Ardeo Quartet running late herded by
Artistic Director Vladimir Mendelssohn.

Wonderful Russian-born pianists Irina Zahharenkova (above)

and Valeria Resjan (Below).

Violist Lilli Maijala, violinist Mi-Sa Yang, and cellist Tomas Djupsjöbacka.

Violist Aurélie Deschamps, Andrew and
Pianist Natacha Kudritskaya relaxing.

Natacha.

Aurélie.

Stage for Kaija Saariaho:
Trois rivières for Percussion and Electronics
Ferchen, Nurminen.

Our friend.

Set in Atlantis in the kingdom of Emperor Overall, Ullmann's opera is full of ironic brilliance, humour, poignancy, and 
evocative quotations. His virtuosic writing interweaves jazz, dance music material, blues, a rewriting of "Deutschland über 
Alles" in the style of a Bach chorale and even more surprising encoded quotations. Ullmann (like Chaplin) dared to satirise 
the political situation of WWII. During a final rehearsal in September 1944, some SS officers happened to be around and 
were outraged at what they heard. Der Kaiser von Atlantis was immediately banned.

The shadows of Dvořák (Requiem), Suk, Mahler, Kurt Weill’s political cabaret and Ullmann’s talent make The Emperor of 
Atlantis one of the most fascinating multilayered masterpieces of the 20th century.

Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944):

Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Op. 49b 

Kortekangas, Söderlund, Katajala, Chorell, Haller, Packalén, Seo, Gleisner, Lethiec, Tuomisalo, Pirinen, Mesirca,
H. Kärkkäinen, Kemppainen, Ferchen, Nurminen, Ardeo Quartet, Simon, Stasevska

Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
Fête des belles eaux for Six Ondes Martenots
Hartmann-Claverie, Forget, Grangey, Ogawa, Perrault, Viard

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MONDAY 19.7.

Mare Nostrum

... Rubashov when accused: What is your opinion about oceans and the infinite? I thought: Here must be the core of my
guilt; is there anything worse for a totalitarian cannibal? I got carried away by his “oceanic” feeling. He felt ashamed.
“Running away from responsibility”, “betrayal of the struggle between classes”, the Bolshevik party disapproved of these
petit-bourgeois notions. The “oceanic feeling” was counterrevolutionary… 

Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon

35 11.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre €19.50/14

Upstream

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741):

Violin Concerto in E flat, RV 253 "La tempesta di mare" 

Roussev, Heikinheimo, F. Szigeti, Stasevska, Wilson, Lindroos, Schmidt

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937):

Ondine for Piano 

Kudritskaya

George Crumb (1920–):

Vox balaenae for Amplified Flute, Cello and Piano

Thomsen, Rousi, H. Kärkkäinen

Intermission

Franz Schubert (1797–1828):

Piano Quintet in A, D 667 "Trout" 

Martin, Imai, Helmerson, de Groot, Resjan

The Friend of this concert is the City of Kuhmo.

36 14.30 Kuhmo Arts Centre €19.50/14

Towards the Sea

Franz Liszt (1811–1886):

Au bord d'une source, S. 160/4 for Piano 

Gröndahl

Franz Schubert (1797–1828):

Auf dem Strom, D 943 for Soprano, French Horn and Piano

Hata, Tapani, Bogino

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849):

Barcarolle in F sharp, Op. 60 for Piano 

Kudritskaya

Kaija Saariaho (1952–):

Trois rivières for Percussion and Electronics

Ferchen, Nurminen

Intermission

Richard Strauss (1864–1949):

Das Schloss am Meere, TrV 191 Melodrama for Narrator and Piano 

Haller, Rucli

Claude Debussy (1862–1918):

La mer (arr. for six Hands at two Pianos by A. Caplet)

Lagerspetz, Kudritskaya, Rucli

The Friend of this concert is the City of Helsinki.

37 18.00 Kontio School €14.50/10.50

Set in Atlantis in the kingdom of Emperor Overall, Ullmann's opera is full of ironic brilliance, humour, poignancy, and evocative quotations. His virtuosic writing interweaves jazz, dance music material, blues, a rewriting of "Deutschland über Alles" in the style of a Bach chorale and even more surprising encoded quotations. Ullmann (like Chaplin) dared to satirise the political situation of WWII. During a final rehearsal in September 1944, some SS officers happened to be around and were outraged at what they heard. Der Kaiser von Atlantis was immediately banned.

The shadows of Dvořák (Requiem), Suk, Mahler, Kurt Weill’s political cabaret and Ullmann’s talent make The Emperor of Atlantis one of the most fascinating multilayered masterpieces of the 20th century.

Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944):

Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Op. 49b 

Kortekangas, Söderlund, Katajala, Chorell, Haller, Packalén, Seo, Gleisner, Lethiec, Tuomisalo, Pirinen, Mesirca, H. Kärkkäinen, Kemppainen, Ferchen, Nurminen, Ardeo Quartet, Simon, Stasevska

38 21.15 Kuhmo Church €19.50/14

La fête des eaux

J.S. Bach (1685–1750):

Chorale Prelude An Wasserflüssen Babylon, BWV 653a for Organ

Pedrini

Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759):

Water Music: Suite in G, HWV 350

Thomsen, Gleisner, Rönkä, Ardeo Quartet, Simon, Zahharenkova

Franz Liszt (1811-1886):

Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este, S. 163/4 for Piano (1877–82)

Gröndahl

Franz Schubert (1797–1828):

Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, D 538

Katajala, Chorell, Torikka, Söderlund, Mesirca

Intermission

Claude Debussy (1862–1918):

La cathédrale engloutie, L. 117/10

Gröndahl

Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937):

Three Myths, Op. 30 for Violin and Piano

Zhu, M. Kärkkäinen

Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992):

Fête des belles eaux for Six Ondes Martenots 

Hartmann-Claverie,  Forget, Grangey, Ogawa, Perrault, Viard