30.10. AT 20:00 Music Centre

Tarmo Peltokoski conductor Piotr Anderszewski piano & conductor Lotta Emanuelsson presenter

Tarmo Peltokoski will talk to Lotta Emanuelsson.

1 Jukka Tiensuu: nemo

Interview with Piotr Anderszewski (audio)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 1. Allegro con brio 2. Largo 3. Rondo (Allegro scherzando)

No interval. The concert will end at about 21:15. Broadcast live on Yle Teema, Yle Radio 1 and Yle Areena.. Jukka Tiensuu: nemo

nemo by Jukka Tiensuu (b. 1948) is sco- nemo. The feeling of spaciousness derives red for chamber ensemble, live electro- from the birds and the whales, inhabitants nics and sampler and was premiered at of worlds of their own, the sky and the IRCAM (the French institute dedicated to sea. Do the birds dive to the depths? Do research into music and sound) in Paris the whales soar to the sky? in 1997. Its material derives from the re- ‘Nemo’ means ‘no one’. In the book corded sounds of birds (mainly black- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea birds) and whales to create a network of by Jules Verne, Captain Nemo sails round interwoven relationships in which things the world in his submarine, a world with- are not always as they seem: what is na- in a world. Tiensuu’s eloquent music like- tural and what is artificial; what is electro- wise charts spheres of its own. In refus- nic and what is acoustic? What is the rela- ing to talk about his works, Tiensuu steps tionship between animal and human? The aside from his music; he becomes ‘no one’. musicians also sing. Jukka Tiensuu has just been awarded The spatial effect created by sound re- the prestigious Wihuri Sibelius Prize in production technology is important in Finland.

2 : Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) com- forget it. In the relationship between pia- posed his C-major piano concerto in 1795. no and orchestra, the formal construc- It was first performed that year, but he tions and the handling of the themes, it is then revised it five years later. It reflects self-assertive and unconventional. a young man’s optimism, and its uncon- The piano sounds misleadingly preoccu- ventional handling of simple materials has pied when first it makes its entry, as if it all the early-romantic bravado that would has just wandered onto the stage without become his hallmark. The whole concer- realising quite what has happened, but it to rests on the minimalist main motif of soon grasps the reins and takes over. The the first movement, a plain C-major chord. action-packed finale is Beethoven the This is present in the figures accompa- prankster pure and simple, repeatedly lea- nying the theme of the slow movement, ding the listener up the garden path befo- and the main theme of the finale is an em- re tugging him back again. bellished version of this fanfare. Contrasting the outer movements is an The military-sounding motif represents ultra-meditative slow one. The piano en- a challenge to former times, looking fear- gages in a duet with a clarinet and basks lessly ahead instead of back to the past, in hymn-like melodies. and Beethoven does not let the listener TARMO PELTOKOSKI PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI Tarmo Peltokoski (b. 2000) is not only a pianist, conductor and composer but a ’s Piotr Anderszewski, is one of the first-class improviser, too. Awarded the tit- world’s most brilliant contemporary pia- le “Young Musician of the Year” by the Pro nists. Winner of the great Gilmore Prize Musica foundation in 2018, he is at pre- in 2002, he has performed at many of the sent studying the piano with Antti Hotti major concert venues in recent months, at the . He has also at- among them London’s Royal Festival Hall, tended the conducting class of Jorma Carnegie Hall, New York, and the Mariinsky Panula since 2014 and of Atso Almila and Concert Hall in St. Petersburg, and been at the Sibelius Academy sin- the soloist with the ce 2018. Winner of several special prizes at and Staatskapelle, the London Symphony the Tampere Piano Competition in 2017, he Orchestra, the , the went on to take the first prize in the Leevi Amsterdam and other Madetoja Piano Competition in 2018. He orchestras. He has also conducted some has been the soloist with, among others, – such as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra the FRSO, the Tampere Philharmonic and and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra Bremen – from the keyboard. and at Finnish music festivals. He has An artist with an extensive discography, 3 conducted many of the Finnish orchestras Anderszewski has had an exclusive recor- and the Manila Symphony Orchestra. ding agreement with Virgin Classics (cur- Tarmo Peltokoski has often demonstrat- rently Warner Classics/Erato) since 2000. ed his ability to improvise, sometimes on His debut album for Virgin Classics won themes provided by the audience. The both Echo Klassik and Choc du Monde de 2018 Mänttä Music Festival performed a la Musique awards. His Szymanowski CD show entitled Once Upon a Time in Nick’s won the Classic FM Gramophone Award in Café scripted and adapted by him in which 2006 for Best Instrumental Disc, and his he also played the leading role. Schumann disc an Echo Klassik award in 2011 and two BBC Music Magazine awards in 2012. His recording of Bach’s English Suites earned him both Gramophone and Echo Klassik awards in 2015. The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra The FRSO has recorded works (FRSO) is the orchestra of the Finnish by Mahler, Bartók, Sibelius, Hakola, Broadcasting Company (Yle). Its mission Lindberg, Saariaho, Sallinen, Kaipainen, is to produce and promote Finnish musical Kokkonen and others. It has twice won culture and its Chief Conductor as of au- a Gramophone Award: for its disc of tumn 2013 has been . Lindberg’s Clarinet Concerto in 2006 The Radio Orchestra of ten players and of Bartók Violin Concertos in 2018. founded in 1927 grew to symphony or- Other distinctions have included BBC chestra proportions in the 1960s. Its Chief Music Magazine, Académie Charles Cros Conductors have been Toivo Haapanen, and MIDEM Classical awards. Its disc of Nils-Eric Fougstedt, Paavo Berglund, tone poems and songs by Sibelius won Okko Kamu, , Jukka-Pekka an International Classical Music Award Saraste and Sakari Oramo, and taking (ICMA) in 2018, and it has been the re- over from Hannu Lintu in 2021 will be cipient of a Finnish EMMA award in 2016 Nicholas Collon. and 2019. In addition to the great Classical- The FRSO regularly tours to all parts of 4 Romantic masterpieces, the latest con- the world. During the 2020/2021 season temporary music is a major item in the its schedule will include a tour to Spain un- repertoire of the FRSO, which each year der Hannu Lintu. premieres a number of Yle commissions. The FRSO concerts are broadcast live Another of the orchestra’s tasks is to re- on the Yle Areena and Radio 1 channels cord all Finnish orchestral music for the and are recorded and shown later on Yle Yle archive. Teema and TV 1.