Fiskars Summer Festival is held for the seventh time in Fiskars Village.

Fiskars Summer Festival brings chamber music concerts and symphony orchestra performances to Fiskars Village in July and August. Throughout the week, various chamber music and symphony concerts will be held around the village.

The program will be published soon.

Jukka-Pekka Saraste and guests lead the Fiskars Festival Orchestra in the final concert of the 7th Fiskars Summer Festival. They will present a programme of distinguished works spanning the Romantic and contemporary repertoire, offering notes of heroism, passion and love.

The concert opens with Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, written to accompany Goethe’s tragedy of resistance and courage. With its emotional power and triumphant ending, it provides a dramatic introduction to the concert. Internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill then joins the orchestra for Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder. Wagner’s love for Mathilde Wesendonck is immortalised in these passionate songs composed on poems by her, becoming one of the composer’s most often performed non-operatic pieces.

As a contemporary counterpoint to the evening’s Romantic masterpieces we will hear Outi Tarkiainen’s Ring of Love and Fire. This is a luminous and colourful work that meditates on creation, motherhood and the elemental forces of life.

The concert concludes with Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7, a composition regarded as one of his darkest and most noble symphonic creations. The rhythmically vibrant and exciting final movement brings the concert, and the festival, to an unforgettable close.

Programme:

L. van Beethoven: Egmont Overture (8’)
R. Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder with Karen Cargill (21’)
O. Tarkiainen: Ring of Fire and Love (10’)
– interval –
A. Dvořák: Symphony No 7 (35’)
Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano
Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor