RAUTAVAARA: VIGILIA (FINLAND)
Thu 5.7.2018 at 9 pm
Espoo cathedral (Urkuyö & Aaria -festival)
Thu 16.8.2018 at 7 pm
Uspenski cathedral, Helsinki
Tue 21.8.2018 at 8 pm
Järvenpää church
Niall Chorell, tenor
Tuukka Haapaniemi, bass
Helsinki Chamber Choir
Nils Schweckendiek, conductor
EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA: Vigilia
Tickets:
5.7. Espoo - 14–29€ www.lippu.fi
16.8. Helsinki - 20 / 18 / 10 € Ticketmaster
21.8. Järvenpää - Free admission. Program 10€.
Einojuhani Rautavaara was one of the leading choral music composers of recent years and his setting of the Orthodox All-Night Vigil in Finnish is dedicated to St John the Baptist. No instruments are permitted in the Orthodox Church and so Rautavaara uses the choir in a very skilful and varied way. Colours are also added by the microtonal recitations of the tenor soloist and the extreme basso profundo -solo.
Before the concert in Espoo 5.7.:
Meet the Artist at 8-8.30 in Pitäjäntupa
Concert café open from 7.30 pm until the concert
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