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N E W S Sibelius first edition Fennica Gehrman has published A Theme and Variations for solo cello by Jean Sibelius. This is a first edition and has been edited by pianist Folke Gräsbeck. Sibelius composed it in summer 1887, when he was 21, but it appears never to have been performed in public during his lifetime. It was first heard in a concert in Finland in 1995, and Torleif Thedéen recorded it for BIS the following year. Sibelius’s Theme and Variations owes much to Bach in terms of its style, although the theme on which the variations are based has a certain Finnish-Nordic flavour. Staern’s busy 2014 Spring 2014 will see a number of Benjamin Staern premieres. He is just now composing Sånger om bländvit kärlek (Songs of Dazzlingly White Love), a song cycle to texts by Karin Boye, for alto Anna Larsson and the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, to be premiered on 14 April. It will be followed by the premiere of a work for chamber ensemble, live electronics, video, and real-time visuals, at NorrlandsOperan in Umeå on 8 May. Conducted by Marc Soustrot the Malmö Symphony Orchestra will give the world premiere of Godai –Concerto for Orchestra on 14 May. Next in turn is a 30-minute orchestral work, a commission from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, for the Gävle, Helsingborg and Norrköping Symphony Orchestras. Photo: Liselotte Graversen Rautavaara’s All-night Vigil on TV The Helsinki Chamber Choir gave five performances of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s All-night Vigil during its September tour of Finland. The Choir was conducted by Nils Schweckendiek and the soloists were Niall Chorell, tenor, and Jyrki Korhonen, bass. One of the concerts was filmed by Yle and will be shown on Finnish TV on 5 October. In November there will also be a TV broadcast by ARTE. The tour was a celebration of Rautavaara’s 85th birthday (9 October). Several orchestras will also be featuring works by him during the autumn. A birthday concert will also be given at the University of Oulu on 7 October. Two focus concerts in November In Helsinki there are concerts presenting music by Lars Karlsson and Erik Bergman. Choral and chamber music and a song cycle with orchestral accompaniment by Karlsson will be heard at the Sibelius Academy on 8 November (See: premieres). The Helsinki Chamber Choir performs works by Bergman and enchantingly contrasts them with ones by Gesualdo at a concert given on 17 November. Photo: Markku Pihlaja n o r d i c HIGHLIGHTS 3/2013 NEWSLET TER FROM GEHRMANS MUSIKFÖRLAG & FENNICA GEHRMAN Sound samples , video clips and other material are available at www.gehrmans.se/highlights www.fennicagehrman.fi/highlights Cover photos: Veli-Matti Puumala (Music Finland/ Saara Vuorjoki), Anders Eliasson (Tony Lundman), Helsinki Chamber Choir (Markku Pihlaja) Editors: Henna Salmela and Kristina Fryklöf Translations: Susan Sinisalo and Robert Carroll Design: Göran Lind ISSN 2000-2742 (Print), ISSN 2000-2750 (Online) Printed in Sweden by TMG Sthlm, Bromma 2013 Heiniö & the Key Ensemble The Key Ensemble, one of Finland’s top vocal groups, has recorded two works by Mikko Heiniö. The Missa Baltica disc featuring his Luceat has been well received abroad. Last year it was voted the best classical album in the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award competition in the USA, and according to a Gramophone review, Heiniö’s Luceat is the real climax of the disc. His Maria Suite is one of the items on a new choral CD scheduled for release in October. The Key Ensemble conducted by Teemu Honkanen also performed works by Heiniö at festivals in Finland in summer 2013. In October, the Ensemble will be singing in the finals of the 2013 Let the Peoples Sing competition. Photo: Jussi Vierimaa H i g h l i g h t s 3 / 2 0 1 3
Pettersson release in Norrköping Christian Lindberg, the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and BIS Records continue their promotion of Allan Pettersson’s music, with concert performances and recordings of Symphonies Nos. 4 and 16. In connection with the concert (31 Oct), the CD with Pettersson’s monumental Symphony No. 9, recorded in Norrköping last autumn, will be released together with a bonus DVD including the Pettersson documentary “Människans röst” (The Human Voice). Ville Matvejeff, Jorma Hynninen & Kimmo Hakola An autumn of Hakola stage works Works by Kimmo Hakola are being staged in several Finnish towns during this year. His opera Akseli premiered in February 2013 has led to no fewer than six more performances during autumn: two at the Turku Music Festival, and the others in Joensuu, Kuusamo and Hämeenlinna, and in Lahti in December. Akseli is a monologue opera and marks the operatic swansong of baritone Jorma Hynninen. Hakola’s children’s opera Mara and Katti is also in the autumn repertoire: Taite performed it in Espoo in August and there were two performances at the Tampere Hall in September. New commissions Rolf Martinsson will compose an opera in four acts based on Joseph Conrad’s short story Amy Foster. Stephen Plaice is writing the libretto (in English) to the opera, which is commissioned by the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. Tobias Broström has recently finished his String Quartet No. 1, commissioned by the New York based Brooklyn Rider. It will be premiered during their tour of Scandinavia in early 2014. Photo: Seilo Ristimäki A Freak in Burbank receives six national premieres Albert Schnelzer’s concert opener A Freak in Burbank continues its advance throughout the world with six national premieres from October till May 2014. Thomas Dausgaard will conduct the work with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow and the French premiere with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at Opera de Dijon. Stefan Solyom will lead Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto in the Italian premiere and Sinfonia Lahti in the Finnish premiere. Finally Mark Wigglesworth will direct the US premiere with the Utah Symphony Orchestra in Salt Lake City, as well as the Australian premiere with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Miss Julie in Paris Birgit Cullberg Opera National de Paris is staging the ballet Miss Julie in Birgit Cullberg’s classical choreography, to music by Ture Rangström (orchestrated by Hans Grossman). There will be a total of 15 performances between 21 February and 13 March 2014. Cullberg’s production of August Strindberg’s play is a harsh show down behind closed doors between an aristocratic young woman and her servant, including both seduction and humiliation. The ballet had its premiere in 1950 and is reckoned as the first Swedish modern dance drama. Photo: Ragnild Haarstad/Scanpix P r e m i e r e s Autumn 2013 Sven-David Sandström Five Pieces for String Quintet Uppsala Chamber Soloists 8.9. Uppsala, Sweden Four Pieces for String Quartet Stenhammar Quartet 8.10. Stockholm, Sweden Olli Kortekangas Seven Songs for Planet Earth Tampere PO, Tampere Philharmonic Choir, San Francisco Choral Society etc./Jani Sivén, sol. Tuija Knihtilä, mezzosoprano, Aarne Pelkonen, baritone 13.9. Tampere, Finland (Finnish premiere) Adventus (suite for organ), Five Christmas Song Arrangements Tiina-Maija Koskela, soprano, Nicholas Söderlund, bassbaritone, Tuomas Tainio, percussion, Kari Vuola, organ 8.12. Naantali, Finland Veli-Matti Puumala Rime Ostrobothnian ChO/Tuomas Hannikainen 20.9. Kokkola, Finland Johan Ullén Lady Macbeth Swedish ChO/Gerard Korsten, sol. Katarina Karnéus, mezzo-soprano 3.10. Örebro, Sweden Kimmo Hakola Music for the film Tukkijoella (Musiikkia elokuvaan Tukkijoella) Finnish RSO/Santtu-Matias Rouvali 11.10. Helsinki, Finland De kaspiska tigrarnas Gud Chorus Sanctae Ceciliae 22.11. Helsinki, Finland Jonas Valfridsson A Fragmented Memory, My Overgrown Little Tree House Jönköping Sinfonietta/Hannu Koivula 27.10 Jönköping, Sweden Lars Karlsson Sju sånger till texter av Pär Lagerkvist (Seven Songs to Texts by Pär Lagerkvist) Wegelius String Orchestra/Arturo Alvarado, sol. Gabriel Suovanen, baritone 8.11. Helsinki, Finland Kai Nieminen Symphony – La Selva Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä/Patrick Gallois 13.11. Jyväskylä, Finland Publishing agreement with Tiina Myllärinen Fennica Gehrman has signed a publishing agreement with Tiina Myllärinen for two orchestral works and her Squarcio for ensemble. Born in 1979, Myllärinen is a freelance composer working for a doctorate at the Sibelius Academy. She has composed orchestral, choral, chamber and solo works and experimented with electronic music. Outside Finland works by her have been performed in the United States, Italy, Germany, Lithuania, Iceland and Norway. Among those who have commissioned works from her are the Helsinki Chamber Choir, the Time of Music festival, the Polytech Choir (PK) and the “ja kitara soi” guitar festival. Myllärinen’s music has been described as cheerfully inquisitive, vigorous and original. She has recently developed an interest in the application and study of various acoustic phenomena, such as resonance, in her music. Photo: Mika Kirsi H i g h l i g h t s 3 / 2 0 1 3
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