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Helsingin kamarikuoro 20th Anniversary
J.S. Bach – Tulve – Seppälä – Ratniece – Clyne – Rehnqvist – Händel
Helsinki Chamber Choir
Finnish Baroque Orchestra
Nils Schweckendiek, conductor
Yle Radio 1 will broadcast the concert on May 31 at 7 pm, after which it will be available for listening on Yle Areena for 30 days.
The Helsinki Chamber Choir celebrates 20 years of professional choral singing in a joint concert with the Finnish Baroque Orchestra. Five new works for chamber choir and Baroque instruments form the centrepiece, including four specially commissioned pieces by the Latvian Santa Ratniece, the Estonian Helena Tulve, the Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist and the young Finnish composer Matilda Seppälä, while Anna Clyne’s In thy Beauty receives its Finnish premiere. The concert also offers rare opportunities to hear Johann Sebastian Bach’s motet Der Geist hilft seiner Schwachheit auf in its fully orchestrated version and the original 1749 version of George Friedrich Handel’s Foundling Hospital Anthem.
Duration: 2 h (incl. intermission)