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In this evening’s concert hosted by Pekka Kuusisto, art music does not turn its gaze away but instead holds onto our hand firmly while compassionately exploring our home planet, its beauty and its wounds.
Strangely beautiful birds of paradise flew into Andrea Tarrodi’s composition that was inspired by the TV series Planet Earth, while the melodic worlds of Hildur Guðnadóttir have made millions of television viewers feel the apocalyptic moods of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on their skin.
For Igor Stravinsky, the Psalms of the Bible were poems of ecstasy and rapture, but he also found hatred and judgment, even curses, in their verses. “I wanted to counter the numerous composers who had mistreated these authoritative verses by using them as the wooden legs of their own poetic-sentimental ‘feelings’.”
The works of composer Antti Auvinen are firmly connected to time. He believes that a contemporary composer can express in his music his views of the world around him. His new composition, commissioned for the Helsinki Variations series, receives its world premiere.
PJOTR TŠAIKOVSKI
Andante cantabile for string orchestra
HILDUR GUÐNADÓTTIR
Vishnaja Pamyat arr. Robert Ames (Finnish premiere)
ARVO PÄRT
Fratres for violin, string orchestra & percussion
ANDREA TARRODI
Paradisfåglar (Finnish premiere)
ANTTI AUVINEN
Stabat Tiger Mater (Premiere)
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Symphony of Psalms
PEKKA KUUSISTO
violin, conductor
MUSIC CENTRE CHOIR
ELERIIN MÜÜRIPEAL
choir coach
