Estimated duration

1 h 45 min., incl. intermission

Organizer

Kitara Nova ry

The Consortium concert will feature Pierre Boulez's chamber cantata Le Marteau sans maître, as well as works by composers Miroglio, Maderna and Searle.

Kitara Nova in Helsinki Music Centre! The Consortium concert in the Paavo hall is a journey back to the starting point of so-called contemporary music. Serialism and departure from the traditional tonal language appear as a radical course of development also in the history of the classical guitar.

In the first half of the concert, the guitar can be heard as part of various musical ensembles. The concert culminates in a true masterpiece; Pierre Boulez’s rarely heard chamber cantata Le Marteau sans maître. The vocal parts are interpreted by the contemporary music virtuoso, soprano Tuuli Lindeberg. The concert acts also as the Finnish debut of the Danish-German conductor, Bernhard Melbye Voss.

Programme

Bruno Maderna (1920-1973): Aulodia per Lothar (1965)

Saara Kemppi, oboe d’amore
Jonne Grans, guitar

Francis Miroglio (1924-2005): Choreïques

Andrzej Wilkus, guitar

Humphrey Searle (1915-1982): Three Cat Poems by E. Lear and T.S. Eliot
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (1951)
Two Practical Cats (1953)
I. Macavity the Mystery Cat
II. Growltiger’s Last Stand

Kaisa Nuolioja, narrator
Alice Thompson, flute
Sirja Nironen, cello
Antero Pellikka, guitar

*** Intermission ***

Pierre Boulez (1925-2016): Le Marteau sans maître (1955)

Bernhard Melbye Voss, conducting
Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Leïla Martin, percussion
Donatien Conversat, percussion
Eero Tekoniemi, percussion
Saara Lehtonen, flute
Arttu Nummela, viola
Santeri Rautiainen, guitar

The concert is supported by Konstsamfundet, The Swedish Cultural Foundation, MES, Stiftelsen Tre Smeder, Emilie and Rudolf Gesellius Foundation and William Thuring Foundation.

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Photo: Heikki Tuuli, Nikolaj Lund