Grand Music for Winds & Strings

Chamber Music Concert

Maano Männi, violin
Denice Djerassi, violin
Janne Ahvenainen, viola
Matti Mietola, viola
Vladimir Reshetko, cello
Tuomas Roos, cello
Pontus Grans, double bass
Erica Nygård, flute
Siri Ilanko, oboe
Hugo Olsson, clarinet
Harri Ala-Aho, horn
Zeynep Bozkaplan, bassoon

The spring chamber music concert introduces different centuries through three contrasting works, performed by the city orchestra’s skilled musicians. Louis Spohr’s substantial nonet was created in the early 1800s, when Viennese Classicism was already beginning to give way to more Romantic expression. A hundred years later, the Hungarian-born cosmopolitan Ernst Dohnányi’s string trio still stands at least one step firmly within Romanticism, even though the next musical revolution was already taking shape around them. And what about the Estonian composer Mirjam Tally, who now lives on Gotland? Like many contemporary composers, she crosses genre boundaries effortlessly and does not hesitate to use lively humor—a quality heard clearly in her cheerfully descriptive work Sarvikud sõnelevad.