Olli Kortekangas' Opera Premiere Sven-David Sandström at 75
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
NORDIC HIGHLIGHTS 3/2017 NEWSLETTER FROM GEHRMANS MUSIKFÖRLAG & FENNICA GEHRMAN Olli Kortekangas’ opera premiere Sven-David Sandström at 75 NEWS Angela Hewitt Edicson Ruiz’s 25th to premiere Whittall performance Angela Hewitt is to be the soloist on 5 It will be his 25th perfor- October in the world premiere in Ottawa, mance, when Edicson Canada, of the piano concerto Nameless Ruiz gives the German Seas by Matthew Whittall. Conducting premiere of Rolf Mar- the National Arts Centre Orchestra will tinsson’s Double Bass Con- be Hannu Lintu. The performance is certo with the Deutsche part of the ‘Ideas of North’ festival cel- Radiophilharmonie Saa- ebrating Canada’s 150th and Finland’s rbrücken Kaiserslauten 100th birthdays. The Lapland Chamber in June of next year. The Orchestra will also be part of the pro- Australian premiere took gramme, with Kalevi Aho’s 14th sym- place last April with the phony Rituals . Queensland Symphony The Whittall concerto was commis- Orchestra, and Novem- sioned jointly by PianoEspoo Festival and ber will see the Chi- the National Arts Centre Corporation. nese premiere with the The Finnish premiere is scheduled on Hong Kong Sinfonietta. OLIVEROS NOHELY PHOTO: 10 November by the Finnish Radio Ruiz has performed the concerto earlier with orchestras in Symphony Orchestra with Risto-Matti Venezuela, Japan, Taiwan, Sweden, Spain, Austria, France and PHOTO: PETER SEARLE PETER PHOTO: Marin as the soloist. Hungary. Tango solo on stage Colourstrings in Apple iBook Store Soprano Marika Krook and a chamber ensemble Colourstrings goes digital! The Violin and Cello ABC books are from Stockholm are to perform the monologue now available as digital publications in the Apple iBook Store. In addition to the Violin A–D and Cello A–D tutors, the store also opera Tango solo by Timo-Juhani Kyllönen in January 2018, under the auspices of Vaasa Opera. sells Violin Scales books 1–3, Kreutzerini, and Piattini. Premiered in 2011, the opera has a libretto (in Spanish) by Maritza Núñez and the events are set in Buenos Aires by night. The stage director in The Princess’ Tale Vaasa will be Jorma Uotinen, and the production Benjamin Staern has, together with the librettist Mi Tyler, writ- includes also two dancers. ten a sequel to Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale. The new work takes Timo-Juhani Kyllönen PHOTO: MAARIT KYTÖHARJU MAARIT PHOTO: up where Stravinsky/Ramuz’s story left off, but in Staern/Tyler’s work it is the Princess who has the leading role. The instrumen- Harri Vuori Composer of the Year tation is the same as in Stravinsky’s work, and there are musical The Finnish Music Publishers Association has chosenHarri Vuori as Classical allusions here to jazz, funk, chorales, Argentinian tango, a waltz in Composer of the Year. The news was announced in Helsinki on 12 September. simultaneous duple and triple time and other surprising features. According to the jury “Vuori is a unique and distinctive voice in Finnish classical Historien om en prinsessa/The Princess’ Tale is available in both a music. He successfully combines modernism with nature mysticism, robust struc- Swedish and an English version. The work was commissioned by tures and enchanting timbres. His music, both orchestral and chamber, also offers Musik i Syd for the Malmö Chamber Festival and was premiered surprises but is, in its profoundest meanings, rooted in the classical music tradition”. on 23 September. NORDIC HIGHLIGHTS 3/2017 Agreement with Esa Pietilä NEWSLETTER FROM GEHRMANS MUSIKFÖRLAG & FENNICA GEHRMAN Fennica Gehrman has entered into a publishing Sound samples , video clips agreement with Esa Pietilä, a well-known saxophonist and other material are available at operating with different musical genres in a creative way. www.gehrmans.se/highlights As a composer, he has broadened the image of contem- www.fennicagehrman.fi/highlights porary music with jazz. He has been commissioned to Cover photos: from Rautavaara’s Cantus arcticus ballet. write works for the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, Zag- Finnish National Opera and Ballet (Mirka Kleemola), ros Ensemble, UMO Jazz Orchestra and others, and Sven-David Sandström (Elias Sjögren), Olli Kortekangas has also written music for solo instruments, instrumen- (Saara Vuorjoki/Music Finland) tal groups, dance projects and films. The new agreement Editors: Henna Salmela and Kristina Fryklöf Translations: Susan Sinisalo and Robert Carroll covers 10 works, including Graffiti Play for chamber Design: Göran Lind orchestra and contemporary jazz trio, and Hunt! for ISSN 2000-2742 (Print), ISSN 2000-2750 (Online) saxophone and percussion quintet. Printed in Sweden by TMG Sthlm, Bromma 2017 PHOTO: MAARIT KYTÖHARJU MAARIT PHOTO: HIGHLIGHTS 3/2017 Commemorating Anders Eliasson PREMIERES In March BIS records released the highly acclaimed CD “4 x October-December 2017 Anders Eliasson” with the chamber ensemble Norrbotten Neo, that will be touring Sweden this autumn with a portrait concert to mark JYRKI LINJAMA Pastoral for organ the year that Eliasson would have turned 70. NEOS Records has Liisa Partanen. 1.10. Tikkakoski, Finland recently released a CD with Eliasson’s “Complete Works for Piano and Harpsichord” featuring pianist Andreas Skouras. SVEN-DAVID SANDSTRÖM Symphony No. 4 – A Luther Symphony 8 November will see the posthumous premiere of the soprano St. Matteus SO/Sonny Jansson, sol. Olle Persson, saxophone version of Eliasson’s Symphony No. 3 – Sinfonia baritone. 1.10. Stockholm, Sweden Concertante. Anders Paulsson is the soloist with the Gothenburg Under en kvinnas hjärta/ Symphony Orchestra conducted by Johannes Gustavsson. Under a Woman’s Heart – chamber opera The concerto will also be recorded on the BIS label. Libretto: Leif Janzon Piteå Church Opera, Norrbotten Neo/David Björkman, PHOTO: JOSEF DOUKKALI JOSEF PHOTO: sol. Tove Dahlberg, Ulrika Tenstam, Stephanie Lippert, Hege Gustava Tjønn. 14.10. Piteå, Sweden New piano editions Three Songs to Texts by Rainer Maria Rilke Fennica Gehrman has published several new piano Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir/Mogens Dahl 5.11. Copenhagen, Denmark collections. A third volume was added to the popular Finnish Favourites for Piano series, this time consisting MATTHEW WHITTALL of modern classics. The piano collectionIhanuuksien Nameless Seas (Piano Concerto) (folk-song arrangements of beloved Finn- National Arts Centre Orchestra/Hannu Lintu, ihmemaa sol. Angela Hewitt. 5.10. Ottawa, Canada ish melodies) by Jukka Nykänen has been widely admired and elegantly crosses musical borders. The OLLI KORTEKANGAS most popular Jean Sibelius piano miniatures are Maamerkit now all available in a single book; critical editions Oulainen Youth Choir/Tapani Tirilä 6.10. Oulainen, Finland PHOTO: MARCO FEKLISTOFF MARCO PHOTO: of the suites had already been pub- Tree and Flower The Lost Melody Tally – featured composer lished earlier. – Story for Narrator and Orchestra St. Anthony Civic Orchestra/Carol Jensen Mirjam Tally is featured composer with the Västerås 5.11. St. Anthony Village, Minnesota, USA Sinfonietta this season. This autumn we can listen to Lightfields and her companion piece to Beethoven’s Mikko Heiniö at 70 TOBIAS BROSTRÖM Ninth Symphony, Lament. A work commissioned Theatron Composer will be 70 version for two percussion soloists and wind orchestra by the Sinfonietta will be premiered this coming Mikko Heiniö in May 2018. To mark the occasion, Östgöta Symphonic Wind Ensemble/Christoffer Nobin, spring. The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic will also sol. Johan Bridger, Patrick Raab. 12.10. Linköping, Sweden the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra perform Tally’s Lament under the direction of Franz has commissioned him to write a Welser-Möst in February of next year. JACOB MÜHLRAD third symphony, a Sinfonia concer- Kaddish for mixed choir and soloist tante for percussion and orchestra Swedish Radio Choir/Peter Dijkstra, sol. Eva Dahlgren 14.10. Stockholm, Sweden Samuelsson’s US premieres to be heard at a birthday con- Marie Samuelsson’s septet Förnimmelser/Notions cert in Turku with his Maes- ANDERS ELIASSON toso for orchestra. A Heiniö Symphony No. 3 – Sinfonia Concertante had its American premiere in July in a packed sum- version for soprano saxophone and orchestra mer garden at the Museum of Modern Art in New premiere is also scheduled Gothenburg SO/Johannes Gustavsson, sol. Anders York. The New Juilliard Ensemble played underJoel for December 2017, when Paulsson. 8.11. Gothenburg, Sweden Sachs. Next February Sarah Ioannides will conduct the Laulu-Miehet Male Voice Choir will perform LOTTA WENNÄKOSKI the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra in the US premiere Susurrus (Guitar Concerto) of Eros Effect and Solidarity – Love Trilogy No. 3. Dur- the Amen for male voice Tapiola Sinfonietta/Mario Venzago, Kymi Sinfonietta/ ing the summer the CD recording of Samuelsson’s choir it has commis- Rumon Gamba, sol. Petri Kumela complete Love Trilogy has begun, to be released on sioned from him. 10.-11.11. Espoo & Kotka, Finland Uniin asti Daphne Records. VIERIMAA JUSSI PHOTO: Finnish RSO, Polytech Choir/Hannu Lintu 6.12. Helsinki, Finland Congratulations Karin Rehnqvist VELI-MATTI PUUMALA Karin Rehnqvist recently celebrated her 60th birthday. With her music, which Root Helsinki PO/Susanna Mälkki has come to be renowned especially for the cross-fertilization of art and folk 22.11. Helsinki, Finland music, she has become one of Sweden’s most sought-after composers. Gehrmans has published her later choral works, such as Teile dich Nacht (2002) to a text by KIRMO LINTINEN Nelly Sachs, a commission from the Donaueschingen