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ic d norHIGHLIGHTS 1/2016 NEWSLETTER FROM GEHRMANS MUSIKFÖRLAG & FENNICA GEHRMAN Einar Englund – classicist and classic Marie Samuelsson and the aspect of love NEWS Watch Jansen play Eliasson in RSPO Play! New symphony by Larsson Gothe It is now possible to view Janine Jansen´s per- Mats Larsson Gothe has recently completed his “ formance of Anders …de Blanche et Marie…” – Symphony No. 3, Eliasson´s violin concerto which is based on material from his opera by Einsame Fahrt in a video the same name. The symphony will be premiered recording from the Stock- by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic/Benjamin holm Concert Hall in Octo- Shwartz during the Composer Festival at the ber of last year. Jansen plays Stockholm Concert Hall in April. together with the Royal In connection with the festival, Stockholm Philharmonic db Productions will release a portrait under Daniel Blendulf. Wedin V a CD including the Symphony No. 2, You will find the film on Ol rspoplay.se and it will be Autumn Diary and The Apotheosis , featuring available there until 27 May. Photo: Jan of the Dance the Västerås Sinfonietta under the direction of er Lindgren Fredrik Burstedt. P Högberg writes Photo: Jes for van Keulen Urtext of Sibelius Humoresques Fredrik Högberg will write a Fennica Gehrman has published an Urtext edition of Jean Sibelius’s Six multimedia concerto, including Humoresques for Violin and Orchestra opp. 87 & 89. Based on the composer’s film, for the Dutch violinist Isabel manuscripts, it has an extensive preface and commentary shedding light on van Keulen. The concerto, that the genesis of the work and correcting many misprints and misinterpretations will have a South African theme, in the previous editions. The Urtext edition also includes the early version is commissioned jointly by the of Humoresque No. 1, now published for the first time. The study score is Düssel dorf SO, the Odense available for sale and the orchestral sets are for hire. A new piano reduction is SO, the Norrköping SO and scheduled for publication later in the spring. It is more pianistic than the cur- Lund J a L the Malmö SO; the premiere is rent one (Ekman, 1922), which was never fully acknowledged by Sibelius. iko n planned for the 2017-18 season. Photo: Bikernieki Forest Sandström’s Passion premieres Sinfonietta Riga, under the direction of On 18 March Sven-David Sandström´s St. John Passion will be pre- Normunds Sne, is taking Jonas Valfridsson´s miered at the Konzerthaus Berlin by Mogens Dahl´s Chamber Choir, chamber-orchestra piece Bikernieku Mezs on soloists and the string quartet Brooklyn Rider. The passion will also be tour of Latvia with four performances in May. the opening work for the Thüringer Bach Wochen on 19 March, after This moving piece by Valfridsson was which it will receive its Scandinavian premiere in Copenhagen and Lund. premiered last November and is written Stefan Parkman will lead the Choir of the West and Choral Union and in memory of the victims (mostly Jews) årdsäter the Pacific Lutheran University Symphony Orchestra in the American g of the mass killings in the forest of premiere of Sandström’s St. Matthew Passion in Tacoma, Washington on Bikernieki outside Riga during the German 22 and 23 March. Photo: Viktor occupation of 1941-45. ic d Beatbox Concerto norHIGHLIGHTS 1/2016 NEWSLETTER FROM GEHRMANS MUSIKFÖRLAG & FENNICA GEHRMAN by Jennah Vainio Fennica Gehrman has signed a publishing oki Sound samples , video clips agreement for Jennah Vainio’s popular con- J and other material are available at certo Fujiko’s Fairy Tale for beatboxer and aara Vuor www.gehrmans.se/highlights string orchestra drawing on influences from s and/ www.fennicagehrman.fi/highlights such directions as Oriental music, hip hop, L Cover photo: From the opera Medea/Emma Vetter dance, video games and the world of Manga/ (Carl Thorborg), Marie Samuelsson (Josef doukkali) Anime. The concerto has been performed 18 Editors: Henna Salmela and Kristina Fryklöf times in five years, mostly in the USA, where Photo: Music Fin Translations: Susan Sinisalo and Robert Carroll beatboxer Shodekeh added it to his repertoire and has performed it with the Baltimore Symphony design: Göran Lind under Marin Alsop. Felix Zenger and RudiRok have been the soloists in Finland. Versions for ISSN 2000-2742 (Print), ISSN 2000-2750 (Online) Printed in Sweden by TMG Sthlm, Bromma 2016 symphony orchestra and sinfonietta are being planned. H ighlights 1 / 2 0 1 6 Tampere Biennale P r emie r es The programme for the Tampere Biennale offers Finnish orchestral classics and highlights. Ville Matvejeff will conduct the Tampere Philharmonic in a concert on 15 April: Usko Meriläinen’s Visions and Whispers spring 2016 (soloist Mikael Helasvuo) and the premiere of Lotta Wennäkoski’s Amor Omnia Suite . This latter VELI-MATTI PUUMALA Pulses, for vibraphone and marimba work is based on her silent-film score (an Yle commission) and was recorded last year. Paavo Heininen’s christian dierstein, 9.2. Freiburg, Germany mammoth organ concerto Aiolos is on the programme for the concert by the Guards Band, with Petri PAAVO HEININEN Komulainen as the conductor and Jan Lehtola as the soloist. Lasting over an hour, the concerto was first Rauhan fanfaari heard in Helsinki in spring 2014. guards Band/Pasi-heikki Mikkola, 9.2. Helsinki, Finland MIKKO HEINIÖ Concerto for Organ and Orchestra turku Po/Leif segerstam, sol. Jan Lehtola Record spring for 11.2. Turku (Katedraali Soi), Finland Lidholm at 95 Rautavaara concertos SVEN-DAVID SANDSTRÖM th Seven Pieces for Violin and Orchestra Ingvar Lidholm celebrated his 95 birthday Concertos by Einojuhani Rautavaara will receive o/Modernt CO, swedish Wind ensemble/kasper de roo, on 24 February. He has just compiled a new, a record number of performances during the spring sol. hugo ticcati, 20.2. Stockholm, Sweden season. The Harp Concerto is to get six in Austria in The Giver of Stars revised version of Nausikaa Alone, a scene for NOTUS choir/dominick di orio, 26.2. Chicago, USA April, the first being at the Vienna Musikverein on 4 soprano, chorus and orchestra from 1963, to The Passion of St John texts by Nobel Prize Laureate Eyvind Johnson, April, when the Niederösterreichisches Tonkünstler- Mogens dahl chamber choir, sol. Lars Møller, baritone, orchester begins its tour of Austria. The soloist will daniel carlsson, counter tenor, Jens Bjørn-Larsen, tuba to be published this spring. This January saw 18.3. Berlin, Germany performances of Lidholm´s modernistic classic be Xavier de Maistre and the conductor Kristiina Three Poems Poesis , with the NDR Sinfonieorchester in Poska. Five solo concertos by Rautavaara were heard ensemble konkret, sol. Marie alexis, soprano Hamburg, the Royal Concertgebouw Orches- at a Helsinki charity concert at the end of January. 8.4. Stockholm, Sweden Concerto for Flute and Orchestra No. 2 tra in Amsterdam and Brussels, and with the norrbotten CO /eva ollikainen, sol. tobias carron Tonhalle-Orchester in Zürich, all conducted 14.4. Luleå, Sweden by Herbert Blomstedt, who in May will lead Kari Tikka JOHAN ULLÉN the Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischer Rund- The Deadly Sins for piano and string orchestra anniversary Musica Vitae/Magnus Fryklund, sol. Johan ullén, piano funks in another two performances of the work 26.2. Växjö, Sweden in Munich. Conducted by Patrik Ringborg, concert Composer-conductor MARIE SAMUELSSON Poesis will also be played by the Staatsorchester Förnimmelser (Perceptions) – Septet Kassel on 25 March. Kari Tikka will be 70 ellen ivansson, clarinet, daniel handsworth, bassoon, on 13 April, when a con- dennis Vasiliev, horn, anders inge, violin, Ylvali Zilliacus, viola, anja inge, cello, Walter Mctigert, double bass cert of his works will be 2.3. Stockholm (Hesselby Chamber Music Festival), Sweden held in his honour at Aphrodite – Fragments by Sappho Temppeliaukio Church swedish radio SO/daniel Blendulf, sol. katija dragojevic, mezzo-soprano in Helsinki. Among the 11.3. Stockholm, Sweden items on the programme Photo: Britt Vuorio KALEVI AHO will be his Armolaulu Kaksi kansankoraalia uruille (Grace Song) and music from the opera Luther. Joni Vikki, irina Vavilova, organ, 6.3. Helsinki, Finland The soloists will be Jenni Lättilä, soprano, Esa Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra Ruuttunen, baritone and Henri Hersta, organ and Pori sinfonietta/Jan söderblom, Lappeenranta city piano. Performances of Tikka’s well-received opera orchestra/tibor Bogányi, sol. esa Pietilä 10.3. Pori/17.3. Lappeenranta, Finland Luther have been planned for 2017, the 500th anni- Herbert Blomstedt and Ingvar Lidholm Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra versary of the Reformation. turku Po/erkki Lasonpalo, sol. ari-Pekka Mäenpää 22.4. Turku, Finland BENJAMIN STAERN Waterfall (Imaginative music based on an etching by M. C. Escher) Commissions for Wennäkoski oki J gageego!, 20.3. Gothenburg, Sweden and Whittall Pont de la mer; Morceau de concert pour aaraVuor cor solo et orchestre Lotta Wennäkoski is composing a new s Guitar Malmö SO/Marc soustrot, sol. einar Öhman, horn and/ Concerto as a joint commission from the Kymi L 30.4. Malmö, Sweden Sinfonietta and the Tapiola Sinfonietta. The MATS LARSSON GOTHE soloist will be Petri Kumela and the premiere “…de Blanche et Marie…” Symphony No. 3 royal stockholm Po/Benjamin shwartz will be in Kotka during the 2017 spring season. Photo: Music Fin 7.4. Stockholm (Composer Weekend Festival), Sweden The Sibelius Academy has commissioned a LOTTA WENNÄKOSKI work for symphony orchestra from Wennäkoski, Amor Omnia Suite to be premiered in November 2016. tampere Po/Ville Matvejeff PianoEspoo has commissioned a Piano 15.4. Tampere (Tampere Biennale), Finland Concerto from Matthew Whittall. The soloist TAPIO TUOMELA Auld Rhymes with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra kaari ensemble/saara aittakumpu u at the premiere during the 2017 festival will J 13.5.