University of the Arts Helsinki - SIBELIUS ACADEMY presents:

Polska Travels: Finnish folk music for a baroque orchestra

What connects the old musical histories of France, Poland, Germany, and ultimately Finland? Polska dance tunes, of course!

Polska travels is a journey on the wings of the most popular Nordic folk dance tune, a programme that explores its arrival on Finnish shores in baroque times and attempts its reinvention. The eloquence of baroque period strings meets the groove of foot-tapping dances, blended and transformed into arrangements and compositions which pay a tribute to the giant stature of Baroque composers on one side and the inextinguishable repertoire of the distinctive Finnish folklore on the other, the fruit of Krishna Nagaraja's first year of doctoral research.


Performers:

SibA FolkBaroque string orchestra, on period instruments:

Peter Spissky, concertmaster
James Salomon Kahane, conductor (The 2 1⁄2 Seasons)

Christine Cooper, Inka Eerola, Marina García Magdaleno, Alina Järvelä, Mirva Laine, Marianne Mieskolainen, Anna Pohjola, Kaisa Ruotsalainen: violins

Valerie Albrecht, Maria Bocelli, Krishna Nagaraja, Anna Pohjola: violas

Pieta Mattila, Norah O'Leary: cellos

Aapo Kyyhkynen: double bass

Marianne Henriksson: harpsichord

Soloists:
Arto Järvelä: solo violin
Ilkka Heinonen: solo jouhikko



Helsinki Music Centre - Musiikkitalo, Camerata Hall - January 19, 2017 - 19:00 EET(UTC/GMT +2)


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PROGRAMME:

A German suite Georg Muffat (1653-1704) "Splendidae Nuptiae" from Florilegium Secundum (1698) Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Overture/Suites TWV 55

00:02:51 I. Muffat: Ouverture
00:05:49 II. Muffat: Les Païsans
00:07:14 III. Telemann: Polonoise TWV 55:g1
00:08:31 IV. Muffat: Les Cavalliers
00:09:40 V. Muffat: Menuet 1
00:10:39 VI. Telemann: Polonoise TWV 55:D13


A Finnish suite (2016)
Trad. Finnish/arr. Krishna Nagaraja (1975)

00:15:07 I. Ouverture-Fugue-Lentement
00:21:03 II. Polonesses
00:23:22 III. Minuet from Oravais: Gammel Torsin
00:27:28 IV. Polonesses
00:29:39 V. Minuet from Jeppo: Gästbåds annandagsmenuett
00:32:17 VI. Karhunkulma: Karhunpeijaispolska/Bear dance at Kengis
00:36:21 VII. Dantz/Polonesse/Double/Polonesse


00:42:05 Lappfjärd set (2016) Trad. Finnish/arr. Krishna Nagaraja (1975)


The 2 1⁄2 Seasons - Concerto for Jouhikko and (possibly Baroque) string orchestra (2017) Krishna Nagaraja (1975)

00:49:36 I. Syksy
00:54:17 II. Talvi
01:02:30 III. Kevät
01:04:38 IV. Kesä


01:11:40 EastWest Improvisation on two Finnish folk tunes


Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

01:19:48 Scotch tune



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Videotuotanto - Video production:

Video, Video effects: Keijo Lahtinen
Sound: Jon-Patrik Kuhlefelt
Lights: Jukka Kolimaa
Producer: Eeva Hohti

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