Chamber Music Festival: The Four Elements
Nature and the four elements have inspired us to curate this year’s FRSO chamber music festival. The ancients back in Antiquity already believed the cosmos consisted of fire, water, air and earth. Our human need to reflect on our relation to nature has fired composers, as indeed other artists, throughout the history of Western music. The planners of this horn of plenty, Laura Vikman and Yuki Koyama, have come up with a package in which water plays, fire dances, the wind tosses the flowers in the garden and the earth is created.
Chamber Music Festival: The Four Elements
Friday 8.3.2024 klo 19.00
Watch and listen LIVE at Yle Areena
The Helsinki Music Centre, Concert Hall
FRSO musicians
Jean-Féry Rebel: Les Élémens
Kalevi Aho: Song of the Earth
Olivier Messiaen: Messe de la Pentecôte, 5th movement: Sortie – Le vent de l’Esprit
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 59 A Major “Fire”
Scenes from The Red God, a dramatized dialogue-dance work
Dramaturgy: Pirkko Saisio
Dance & choreography: Atte Kilpinen
Actor: Valtteri Lehtinen
Musical planning: Laura Vikman
Terry Riley: Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Hymn to the Sun
Leonid Desyatnikov: Sketches to Sunset
Tickets: 10–40 €
Interval at about 20. The concert will end at about 21.20.
