Thursday – Friday Nov. 14 – Nov. 15., 2024

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Thursday at 8 p.m. in Siuntio Church

Amor Céu – Medieval vocal and multi-instrumental music

Anna-Maaria Oramo, Aino Peltomaa, Eira Karlson

Amor Céu is an ensemble specialising in medieval music. The ensemble’s name refers to a beloved, a friend, or a heavenly love.

Musicians in the ensemble are Eira Karlson, vocals and fiddle, Anna-Maaria Oramo, vocals and clavisimbalum, and Aino Peltomaa, vocals, harp and percussion.

Amor Céu highlights the visibility of the medieval woman as performer, character and subject. The praise of Mary is a thread running through the programme.

Program:

Quantas sabedes amare amigo – Martin Codax

Molt m ́abellist /Tenor: Flos Filius eius – anon.

Plus bele que flor/Quant revient/L’autrier joer/Flos filius eius – Codex Montpellier

De Santa María sinal qual xe quér – Cantigas de Santa Maria  

Venetia, mundi splendor/Michael qui Steno domus– Johannes Ciconia

Ai Deus se sab óra meu amigo Martin Codax

Santa María léva – Cantigas de Santa Maria

Da que Déus mamou o leite do séu peito – Cantigas de Santa Maria

Como somos per conssello do démo perdudos – Cantigas de Santa Maria

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Ondas do mare de Vigo – Martin Codax

Mandad ́ei comigo – Martin Codax

O Maria /Tenor: Veritatem – Codex Montpellier

Ductia – anon.

Amours et ma dame et aussi – Adam de la Halle

Or est baiars en la pasture – Adam de la Halle  

Muit’ é ben-aventurado e en bon ponto naceu – Cantigas de Santa Maria

Ai ondas que eu vim veer – Martin Codax

Par Déus, muit’ há gran vertude na paravla comũal – Cantigas de Santa Maria

Mia irmana fremosa – Martin Codax

Vergene bella – Guillaume Dufay Se la phase pale – Guillaume Dufay/Buxheimer Orgelbüchlein

Amor potest / Ad amorem / tenor Codex Montpellier

Sempr’ acha Santa María razôn verdadeira – Cantigas de Santa Maria

25 € – Buy tickets to concert Amor Céu

Friday at 7 p.m. in Siuntio Church

From the bottom of my heart

Kimmo Hakola, piano
Juho Pohjonen, piano
Kaija Saarikettu, violin
Andreas Brantelid, cello

For its 25th anniversary, Lux Musicae commissioned a violin sonata from Kimmo Hakola (b. 1958), which will be premiered by Hakola himself (piano) and Kaija Saarikettu (violin). It is a continuation to one of Lux Musicae’s main principle: to support creative work and new musical art.

The programme is otherwise made up of romantic music from different centuries:

Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) was one of the most important harpsichord composers of his time. Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was fascinated by the different art forms of his time, t.ex. painting and poetry, which can be heard in his compositions.

Johannes Brahms’ (!833-1897) Cello Sonata in E minor is one of his most beloved chamber music works. It is also a tribute to Bach, whose Contrapunctus theme No 13 he uses in the last movement of the sonata, which is a fugue.

An interesting detail in the programme is a series of variations on a Finnish folk song by the Italian piano virtuoso Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), who taught in Helsinki in the late 1880s.

Program:

Jean-Philippe Rameau:
Suite in A minor (Nouvelles suites des pièces de clavecin)

Claude Debussy:
Sonata for cello and piano L.135

  1. Prologue: Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto
  2. Sérénade: Modérément animé
  3. Finale: Animé, léger et nerveux

Kimmo Hakola:

Violin Sonata Op. 117 (world premiere)

-intermission-

Johannes Brahms:
Sonata for piano and cello No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 

  1. Allegro non troppo
  2. Allegretto quasi Menuetto
  3. Allegro

Ferruccio Busoni:

Kultanen – ten variations of Finnish folk song for cello and piano KiV 237 

25€ – Buy tickets to concert From the bottom of my heart