Finnish Music Day

Ernst Mielck: String Quintet
Kalevi Aho: Wind Quintet No. 1
Einojuhani Rautavaara: String Quartet No. 1
Jean Sibelius: Pelléas et Mélisande

Dain Song, flute, programme planning
Jun Saotome, oboe, programme planning
Nevio Ciancaglini, clarinet
Marco Bottet, bassoon
Eelis Malmivirta, horn
Marjaana Holva, violin, programme planning
Susanna Suorttanen, violin
Alexander Pozdniakovas, viola
Ramona Wolin-Takala, viola
Larimatti Punelpuro, cello

On Finnish Music Day, musicians of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra take on works by Mielck, Aho, Rautavaara, and Sibelius. Each of these composers has, in their own way, shaped the development of Finnish art music. Rautavaara’s string quartet brings a touch of neoclassicism to the concert, while the highly versatile Aho is among Finland’s most significant contemporary composers. Mielck, who died of tuberculosis at the age of just 21, began his promising career with chamber music even before Sibelius’s breakthrough. The concert concludes with Sibelius’s delicate Pelléas et Mélisande, composed for Maurice Maeterlinck’s play of the same name.