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Vaasa City Orchestra
cond. Nils Schweckendiek
Helsinki Chamber Choir

The Helsinki Chamber Choir, led by Nils Schweckendiek, has established itself among the world’s leading choirs—a fact recently affirmed by their Grammy Award for the recording of Kaija Saariaho’s choral works. HKK and Schweckendiek join the Vaasa City Orchestra at the Vaasa Choir Festival with a program that brings together two impressive composers: Einojuhani Rautavaara and Ludwig van Beethoven. The dark and solemn concert program anticipates the upcoming Memorial Day for the Fallen, yet the music “now enraptures, comforts, and helps us,” as reminded in Rautavaara’s Die erste Elegie, based on a text by Rainer Maria Rilke. The main work of the concert is Beethoven’s Mass in C major, which will also serve as a magnificent finale to the Vaasa City Orchestra’s concert season.

In cooperation with Vaasa Choir Festival.