Flauto col legno

Max Reger: Serenade in G major for flute, violin and viola op. 141a
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Assobio a jato ('jet whistle') for flute and cello
François Devienne: Quartet in D major for flute and string trio op. 66/2
Sebastian Fagerlund: String Trio ‘Oceano’

Sara Antikainen, flute, programme planner
Philip Zuckerman, violin
Mari Viluksela, viola  
Larimatti Punelpuro, cello  

Reger’s lovely Serenade opens this evening at the Sibelius Museum, focusing on chamber music with flute. Villa-Lobos’s piece highlights the differences between the flute and the cello, which nevertheless complement each other’s sound nicely. Devienne is known as the ‘French Mozart’; his Quartet is airy and lucid. Oceano by our Composer-in-Residence Sebastian Fagerlund was commissioned for a concert series in Turku’s year as European Capital of Culture in 2011; back then, the piece was performed along what used to be the mail boat route from Turku via Åland to Stockholm.