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Sun 19.4.2020 at 18.00
Tammisaari Church, Tammisaari

“CLASSIC ” means a work that has achieved a universally recognised and appreciated status, regardless of genre. The classics are not universal or typical of their time, but summarise something essential about their culture and their era. For example, the chamber orchestra Avant should be considered a classic.” (Antti Häyrynen)

Avanti! will play classics from the baroque, romantic, jazz and folk music genres at Tammisaari Church in April 2020. The concert will feature György Ligeti’s String Quartet No. 1.

The Classics of All Time concert is part of the AUF series, a joint effort by Avant, UMO and FiBO, where top orchestras from different genres invite listeners to experience a wide range of musical delicacies.

Anna-Leena Haikola, violin
Terhi Paldanius, violin
Riitta-Liisa Ristiluoma, viola
Mikko Ivars, cello
Kari Kriikku, clarinet
Jouko Laivuori, piano

Programme:

A mix of Beethoven and contemporary music:
Jukka Tiensuu: Tombeau de Beethoven

Romantic classic:
Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat major op. 44, Part II:
In moto d’una marchia, un poco largamente

Folk music classics:
Béla Bartók’s duos for two violins and Finnish folk music pieces

Baroque classic:
Carlo Farina: Capriccio stravagante

Jazz classic:
Duke Ellington: Mood Indigo
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A new music classic:
György Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1, “Métamorphoses nocturnes”

Allegro grazioso
Vivace, capriccioso
Adagio, mesto
Presto
Andante tranquillo
Tempo di Valse, moderato, con eleganza, un poco capriccioso
Allegretto, un poco gioviale
Prestissimo

The concert is organised by Ekenäs Konsertgarantiförening rf

Tue 15.9.2020 at 19.00
Music House, Helsinki

Heikki Kossi, foley artist
Antti Tikkanen, violin
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra
Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO)

Three top orchestras – Chamber Orchestra Avanti!, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) – will once again perform in a joint autumn concert, offering surprising treats and a wide range of skills to delight and inspire the audience! How does a recycled refrain sound on a Foley artist’s kiosk, what does Vivaldi sound like in a minimalist remix version, and what links can be found between the works in the concert and the world of cinema?

Avanti! and the world’s first foley concert
Jack and the Specifics, composed by Sami Klemola, is for foley artist and chamber orchestra. It is reportedly the first time that the solo parts of the concerto have been written for a foley artist, in this case Heikki Koss. Kossi is a sound artist who creates soundtracks for films, including the sound of footsteps and doors creaking. Kossi has worked on dozens of Finnish films and has also enjoyed international success. He performs foley sounds live in a concert situation. There is a strong visual element when Kossi, performing with Avant, brings a huge kiosk full of merchandise with him to produce the sounds.

UMO Helsinki and two ever-renewing maestros
Afro-Bossa is one of Duke Ellington’s most remarkable and original compositions. It’s a stunning demonstration of how the retired maestro still found new ways to travel the world of blues. Despite its name, the work makes no reference to Brazilian music, but is instead an abstract blend of African and Latin influences that, propelled by a bolero rhythm, reach an explosive climax like an approaching procession.

In addition to a piece by Duke Ellington, the UMO will perform a tickling piece by Jukka Tiensuu called Umori. As always with Jukka Tiensuu, he once again showed the music world his unfailing visionary talents when he musically reinvented the big band ensemble in Umori. However, the work is not an antithesis or negation of the big band tradition, but rather an astonishingly unforced glowing update of the unused resources of the big jazz orchestra.

UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra plays a wide range of music from jazz to soul and classical music, surprisingly combining new and old.
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A Finnish baroque orchestra combines past and present
The distance between past and present is short – sometimes a hair’s breadth. A more familiar version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons will open the ears of baroque lovers when the Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) concludes the concert with Max Richter’s Four Seasons Recomposed, premiered in 2012. It models the Four Seasons concertos as minimalist remixes. Sometimes Vivaldi and Richter walk in lockstep, sometimes Richter jerks the music into an insightful angle or stretches it through repetition into cosmic baroque landscapes. The result of recolored harmonic bases and surfaces reminiscent of electronic sound mats is a deafening and intelligently realized ambient Vivaldi.
Antti Tikkanen and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra will interpret the work this year in Helsinki’s Musiikkitalo as well as in Central Europe.

The Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) is known for its skilful performances, bold and innovative working methods and creative repertoire design.
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The concert is part of the AUF collaboration between Avanti!, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and Finnish Baroque Orchestra since autumn 2017.

Before the concert, there will be a Get more out of the performance event in the main hall of the Music Hall at 18:00.

15.9.2020 at 19.00 Helsinki Music Hall
At 18 Päälämpiö – More out of the performance (20 min)

UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra

Duke Ellington: Afro-Bossa (1963, 4:30)

Jukka Tiensuu: UMORI (2004, 19:00)
1. Kumous / Riscossa
2. Umous / Ahnung
3. Kumotus / Clair de lune
4. Kuumotus / Fever

Chamber Orchestra Avanti!
Heikki Kossi, foley artist

Sami Klemola (1973): Jack and the Specifics (2017, 22:00)
1. The Forest
2. Man in the Cabin
3. The Crash
4. Intermezzo
5. Friction
6. Underwater
7. Message deleted
8. Tom, Jack and bipolar Jerry
9. Machina
10. Cadenza
11. Exit
12. Still life

Interim

Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO)
Antti Tikkanen, violin

Max Richter (1966-): Four Seasons Recomposed (2012, 45:00)
1. Spring
2. Summer
3. Autumn
4. Winter

Tickets: ticketmaster.fi

The staged ensemble version of composer Kaija Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone will be performed for the first time in Helsinki, at the Helsinki Music Centre’s Concert Hall, at Easter 2020.For audiences who might traditionally head to church and passions at Easter, the work offers an opportunity for a new kind of Easter experience. Through its philosophical ideas, the work will also appeal to a younger audience.

The Paris-based musical theatre group La Chambre aux échos commissioned a chamber orchestra version of La Passion de Simone and premiered it on 14 November 2013 at the Melos-Ethos festival in Bratislava, Slovakia. The production has since travelled to festivals (Saint-Denis, Bergen, Njord, Lublin), New York, Paris, Copenhagen and various opera houses in France.

In addition to La Chambre aux échos, the Finnish chamber orchestra Avanti! The conductor is Saariaho specialist Clément Mao-Takacs. The stage director is Aleksi Barrière.

Sun 12.4.2020, at 19:00

Mon 13.4.2020, at 16:00

Kaija Saariaho
composition

Amin Maalouf
libretto

Clément Mao-Takacs
conductor

Aleksi Barrière
steering

Chamber Orchestra Avanti!

Sayuri Araida
soprano soloist

Isabelle Seleskovitch
actress

Sandra Darcel (soprano)
vocal quartet

Marianne Seleskovitch (mezzo-soprano)
vocal quartet

Johan Viau (tenor)
vocal quartet

Romain Dayez (bass baritone)
vocal quartet

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