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NORDIC HIGHLIGHTS 2/2016 NEWSLETTER FROM GEHRMANS MUSIKFÖRLAG & FENNICA GEHRMAN Focus on Lintinen & Larsson Gothe NEWS Schnelzer at Weekend Festival Rautavaara’s Mine in Hungary Albert Schnelzer will Einojuhani Rau- be next year´s Weekend tavaara’s opera Th e Photo: Beatrice Lundborg Beatrice Photo: Festival Composer at the Hans Lindén Photo: Mine (Kaivos) is in Stockholm Concert Hall. Ondine Records Photo: the repertoire of the Scheduled for 6-9 April, Hungarian State the festival will feature Opera House in Oc- some 15 of his orchestral tober-November; the and chamber works, in- fi rst of the four per- cluding the premiere of a formances is sched- new 20-minute orchestral uled for 23 October, piece dedicated to the Royal Stockholm Philhar- and there are also monic under the direction of Evan Rogister. Ja- plans for bringing the production to Finland. cob Koranyi will be soloist in the cello concerto Jacob Mühlrad Th e conductor is Tibor Bogányi and the solo- Crazy Diamond, and the Gävle Symphony Or- ists include Tommi Hakala, Adrienn Miksch chestra will make a guest performance, together Extended agreement and Sándor Balla. Th e opera is about the Hun- Gehrmans has entered into an extended collab- with Francois Leleux, in the oboe concerto Th e garian uprising in 1956 and is one of the events oration with Jacob Mühlrad. Th e agreement, Enchanter. commemorating this. It tells how a community which initially applied to his choral music, now revolts against dictatorship through the story also includes orchestral and chamber music, as Kalevi Aho in demand of workers trapped underground when a mine well as his border-crossing cooperation with Th e series of Kalevi Aho concerto premieres collapses. Swedish Grammy Award winning rap artist Sil- continues in Antwerp on 21 October 2016 with vana Imam. When Mühlrad receives his mas- the performance by the DeFilharmonie of the ter’s degree from the composition programme Harri Viitanen highlighted Double Concerto for English Horn and Harp it has at the Royal College of Music in June there are Th e spring 2016 issue of the French magazine commissioned from him. Th e soloists will be An- already many commissions waiting: a violin con- Orgues Nouvelles has highlighted the organ neleen Lenaerts, harp, and Dimitri Mestdag, cor certo, a couple of large-scale choral works and a music of Finnish composer-organist Harri Vii- nd anglais. Aho’s 2 Violin Concerto will receive its number of chamber music pieces. tanen. Th ere are two works by him – Images premiere in Kotka on 30 November by the Kymi d’oiseau and Voyager – on the accompanying Sinfonietta. Th e soloist is Elina Vähälä. CD, and an article by Carolyn Shuster Fourni- Aho’s Symphony No. 14 ‘Rituals’ will receive Karlsson and Nieminen er extols his music for its universal visions and fi ve performances in August. It is on the tour mystique, calling him a spiritual son of Olivier programme for the Lappeenranta City Orches- Messiaen. Viitanen has given many performanc- Photo: Saara Vuorjoki Saara Photo: tra in Finland and Lithuania on August 10-19 Karlsson David Photo: es in France, at such illustrious churches as No- (there will be four performances in all) and the tre Dame and La Sainte-Trinité de Paris, where Chamber Orchestra of Lapland will play it at the he gave a recital of his own works in May 2015. Luos to Classic Festival on 14 August. A new music festival dedicated to Kalevi Aho will be launched in Forssa, Finland on July 1-2. It will focus on his chamber music, including piano works performed by Sonja Fräki. Th e Lapland Chamber Orchestra conduct- ed by John Storgårds is to premiere Lars Karlsson’s Clarinet Concerto with Christoff er Sundqvist as the soloist in Rovaniemi on 28 NORDIC HIGHLIGHTS 2/2016 September. BIS will be recording the concer- NEWSLETTER FROM GEHRMANS MUSIKFÖRLAG & FENNICA GEHRMAN to alongside with Karlsson’s Seven Songs for Sound samples , video clips Baritone and Orchestra of poems by Pär La- and other material are available at gerkvist (with soloist Gabriel Suovanen). www.gehrmans.se/highlights Solo works by Kai Nieminen are to be pre- miered this summer in Finland, the UK and Cover photo: : Miranda Tini in African Prophetess at the Romania. A concert dedicated solely to his Larsson Gothe Festival/Jan Olav Wedin, Mats Larsson music is to be held in Jyväskylä on 9 August; Gothe/Mats Bäcker, Kirmo Lintinen/Maarit Kytöharju (Music Finland) Erkki Palola and Tuomas Mali will play chamber music. Pilfi nk Records has released Editors: Henna Salmela and Kristina Fryklöf Translations: Susan Sinisalo and Robert Carroll a CD including works by Kai Nieminen per- Design: Tenhelp Oy/Tenho Järvinen formed by Tommi Hyytinen, horn (see: New Päivi Nikkanen-Kalt and Harri Viitanen in ISSN 2000-2742 (Print), ISSN 2000-2750 (Online) CDs). front of the Église de la Sainte-Trinité de Paris. Printed in Sweden by TMG Sthlm, Bromma 2016 HIG HLIG HTS 2/2016 Summer Håkan 2016 Hardenberger PREMIERES KIMMO HAKOLA Monument Annikka Konttori-Gustafsson, piano 19.5. Helsinki, Finland String Quartet No. 4 Meta4 Photo: Marco Borggreve Marco Photo: 12.7. Kemiö, Finland (Kimito Island Music Festival) Broström’s Sputnik at the Proms KAI NIEMINEN Håkan Hardenberger will take Tobias Broström´s Shades... around Stonehenge Ruins Sputnik on tour with the Academy of St. Martin in Marco Ramelli, guitar Peter Friis-Johansson and 15.6. St. Andrews, UK Sven-David Sandström the Fields in July and August. Th ere will be perfor- The Smile of Flamboyant Wings Photo: Emelie Kroon Photo: mances in Germany and Norway, and the tour will Tuomas Mali, piano Sandström’s new Piano Concerto end with a concert at the BBC Proms, for which Bro- 26.6. Campina, Romania Northern Spells In March of 2017 the Gothenburg Symphony Or- ström has also made an arrangement of Brahms´s Marko Rutanen, guitar chestra will premiere Sven-David Sandström´s Hungarian Dance No. 6 for trumpet, banjo, accordi- 3.7. Jämsä, Finland Five Pieces for Piano and Orchestra. Th e work has on, piano and strings. MIKKO HEINIÖ been fi nanced by the Anders Wall Foundation and is When the Boys…/ Kun pojat… James D. Hicks, organ dedicated to pianist Peter Friis Johansson who says, 21.6. Turku, Finland “the piano concerto is a stroke of genius. Th e music is Haglund Festival in Halmstad Three Morning Songs very personal, full of brilliant ideas, interesting tim- Tommie Haglund will be honoured with a two- Sampo Haapaniemi, baritone, Ville Matvejeff , piano bres and vivid themes. Th is will be an epic journey day festival in St. Nicolai Church, in his home- 12.8. Turku, Finland (Turku Music Festival) Jag vill gå mellan rågen for me and undoubtedly for the audience as well.” town Halmstad on 30 September-1 October. Th e Key Ensemble/Teemu Honkanen artistic leader is conductor Joachim Gustafsson, 14.8. Turku, Finland (Turku Music Festival) Englund works published who will present a programme featuring orches- BENJAMIN STAERN Fennica Gehrman is signing an agreement with the tral, choral and chamber music works. Partici- Drop Waves David Huang, piano Einar Englund estate for works by him that have not pants include the Göteborg Opera Orchestra, 29.6. Båstad, Sweden (Båstad Chamber Music Festival) yet been published. It covers 17 items for orchestra, the St. Nicolai Choir, the Merentin Quartet, et al. Air – Spiral – Light among them Th e Great Wall of China, Symphonies You will fi nd the complete programme at: www. Camilla Hoitenga, fl ute, Karin Dornbusch, clarinet, gehrmans.se/en/calendar. Magdalena Meitzner, percussion, David Huang, piano, 3, 5 and 7, concertos, chamber and vocal music. Th e Nadia Wijzenbeek, violin, Ylvali Zilliacus, viola, birth of Englund 100 years ago is being celebrated Marie Macleod, cello, cond. Christian Karlsen, sol. this year with numerous concerts and performances. Jacob Kellermann, guitar Fennica Gehrman recently published new, clean-cop- Heiniö’s Evening on stage and CD 1.7. Båstad, Sweden (Båstad Chamber Music Festival) ied orchestral material of his Symphony No. 4. Th e choral work Ilta (Evening) by Mikko Hei- JACOB MÜHLRAD Point of No Return for solo cello niö can now be heard on the new disc released by Antonio Hallongren the Key Ensemble. Lasting 53 minutes, it is in fi ve 29.6. New York, USA movements, each in a diff erent language and joined OLLI KORTEKANGAS together by clarinet and cello intermezzos. Th e crit- Valon aika (Time of Light) Juha Kotilainen, baritone, Janne Malinen, guitar ically-acclaimed premiere in September 2015 was 30.6. Heinävesi, Finland a co-production with the ERI Dance Th eatre to a JYRKI LINJAMA choreography by Tiina Lindfors. ERI and the Key Sonata da chiesa III Ensemble conducted by Teemu Honkanen are now Petteri Pitko, harpsichord 15.7. Hiittinen, Finland (Kimito Island Music Festival) bringing Evening to Helsinki for the fi rst time; the eagerly-awaited performance will be held in the Almi KALEVI AHO Kimmo Hakola commissions Hall of the Finnish National Opera on 8 October. Passacaglia Marko Ylönen, cello, Timo Korhonen, guitar Th e Gulbenkian Foundation and the Europe- 13.8. Luosto, Finland (Luosto Classic) an Concert Hall Organisation have commis- Staern in focus SVEN-DAVID SANDSTRÖM sioned Kimmo Hakola to compose a piece for Th e Båstad Chamber Music Festival’s focus on Ben- Föreställningen/The Performance clarinet and piano for their concert season. Th e jamin Staern (27 June-2 July) will include the world – Chamber Opera Ensemble from the Royal Swedish Orchestra/Mattias Böhm, premiere in London on 19 October by Horácio premiere of Air – Spiral – Light for guitar and small Love Derwinger, piano, Jeanette Köhn, soprano, Ferreira, clarinet, and David Bekker, piano ensemble with Jacob Kellermann as soloist.