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In spring 2017, Chamber Orchestra Avanti! treats the audience to a colourful selection of classical and contemporary music – without forgetting choice Baroque-era hits. The highlight of the season will be concert Kev\u00e4\u00e4n lumous (The Spell of Spring), with the dramatic soprano Karita Mattila dazzling in the lead. A premiere of a new orchestral piece by Lauri Kilpi\u00f6 will open the concert. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Avanti!’s spring season comprises three concerts: in February Avanti! caps the festival Musica Nova by paying homage to Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti; March will see the orchestra revisit the acclaimed concert Rite at Porvoo Cathedral; and the season will be wrapped up in May by casting the Spell of Spring.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Spell of Spring<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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On the last Saturday of May, Helsinki Music Centre will play host to Avanti!’s anticipated end-of-season concert with the brilliant Karita Mattila. Mattila was catapulted to international attention in 1983 when she won the singing contest Cardiff Singer of the World. As chance would have it, Avanti! was founded the same year, and now the paths of these two veritable phenomena of Finnish music cross again with love and its many hues – longing, romance and joy – being unleashed in the late May evening.<\/p>\n

The concert will open with the premiere of a new orchestral work by composer Lauri Kilpi\u00f6, one of the most interesting voices of his generation. The piece has been commissioned by Pro Musica Foundation, which also supports the concert. <\/p>\n

The pieces to be performed by Mattila portray the feelings of love and longing in the lightness of spring. French composer Henri Duparc’s songs are filled with elegant saudade and sensuality. The damsel in Jean Sibelius’s song \u201cFlickan kom ifr\u00e5n sin \u00e4lsklings m\u00f6te\u201d falls victim to an infidel lover. In Rydberg’s \u201cP\u00e5 verandan vid havet\u201d the pregnant silence expresses omnipresent longing, whereas in \u201cV\u00e5ren flyktar hastigt\u201d by Runeberg the mere memory of spring encourages to love. <\/p>\n

Contentment of the heart shines through Robert Schumann’s symphony \u201cSpring\u201d, too: for the that time newly-wedded composer the season is swarming with tokens of romance.<\/p>\n

Conductor Olari Elts.<\/p>\n

NOTE: The concert program has changed. The information is updated on Jan 23rd 2017. <\/p>\n

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Opening the Season in the Spirit of Ligeti <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The first concert of the season will spotlight Hungarian-born avant-garde composer Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti and his musical heritage. The public will remember Ligeti’s music especially from the Stanley Kubrick films 2001:<\/em> Space Odyssey<\/em> and Eyes Wide Shut<\/em>. The concert In the Spirit of Ligeti closes the festival Musica Nova and delves into the pervasive Ligetiian influence in the works of his son and major students. <\/p>\n

Lukas Ligeti’s piece \u201cCurtain\u201d marries European modernism and African rhythms. Inspired by visual arts, the piece applies the technique of layering to music in a way that justifies comparisons to animation artist William Kentdrige. Ligeti paints on the melodic and harmonic canvas provided by the string quartet, creating an intriguing tension between the quartet and the larger ensemble. <\/p>\n

\u201cThall\u201d (Mask), the last part of Unsuk Chin’s cosmigimmicks, is a tribute to Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti. In the centre of this musical pantomime is the guitar. Using only of a few repetitive microtones, the guitar plays a pseudo melody that changes according to the harmonies of other instruments – just like the expression on a mime artist’s face. <\/p>\n

Benedict Mason, another important student of Ligeti’s, too, nods to his mentor in his piece \u201cHinterstoissener traverse\u201d. By restricting itself to the use of only one note, g, this extremely minimalistic piece manages to direct its attention fully to the exploration of rhythm and dynamic. <\/p>\n

The concert is a part of the festival Musica Nova and it will be conducted by Clement Power.<\/p>\n

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Avanti! Revisits the acclaimed Rite at Porvoo Cathedral <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

First performed in Helsinki’s Temppeliaukio church in April 2016, the much-lauded concert phenomenon Riitti (Rite) returns this spring. This time, Avanti! takes the theme concert to the atmospheric Porvoo Cathedral on 14 March. Rite brings together old and new music and takes advantage of the solemn space and peculiar acoustics of the church milieu. <\/p>\n

Of well-known Baroque-era names the programme includes Henry Purcell’s \u201cThe Queen’s Funeral March\u201d and Marin Marais’s piece \u201cSonnerie de Ste-Genevi\u00e8ve du Mont de Paris\u201d, familiar from the biopic All the Mornings of the World.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here the title \u201crite\u201d does not only refer to and describe the programme but the form of the whole concert, as well. From to the flamboyance of the Baroque and its well-known pearls, the concert takes us to the futuristic atmospheres of the 1900s, along with a number of rarely performed pieces from the 1950s. Rite will culminate in concerto \u201cTarinaoopperabaletti\u201d (Story Opera Ballet) for electronic cello, commissioned from Jukka Tiensuu by soloist Juho Laitinen. <\/p>\n

The concert is a part of the concert series Taidetehtaan Klassikot and it will be conducted by Lauri Ahokas.<\/p>\n

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