{"id":156559,"date":"2025-12-01T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=156559"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:55:44","slug":"northern-lights","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/concert\/northern-lights-156559\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Room 202 Johan Adrian Jacobsen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Einojuhani Rautavaara<\/h5>\n

String Quartet No. 1 (\u201eQuartettino\u201c)<\/p>\n

I. Presto II. Andante III. Vivace (alla giga)<\/p>\n

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Room 317 Northern Silk Road<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edvard Grieg<\/h5>\n

String Quartet No. 2 F Major EG 117<\/p>\n

I. Sostenuto \u2013 Allegro vivace e grazioso\u00a0 II. Scherzo. Allegro scherzando<\/p>\n

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In keeping with the winter season, December’s micro-concert brings music by Nordic composers into dialogue with cultures that define themselves or are defined as northern \u2013 the Kwakwaka\u02bcwakw of Vancouver Island in north-western Canada and the Buddhist traders on the northern Silk Road that runs through the Taklamakan Desert.<\/p>\n

Finnish composer Einojuani Rautavaara (1928-2016) was born at a time when his compatriot and role model Jean Sibelius finally stopped composing. Rautavaara’s first string quartet (1953) reveals his interest in neoclassicism. An idiom reminiscent of Stravinsky and Finnish folk music form an exciting combination. But Slavic Romanticism was no stranger to the Finn, nor was a peppery Italian gigue at the end.<\/p>\n

With a similarly cheerful gesture, around 1890 the Norwegian Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) started adding a \u2018light and joyful sister\u2019 in F major to his rather brooding first string quartet in G minor. But the bright, serenade-like work was to remain only two movements long. Despite several attempts, Edvard Grieg never got around to finishing the promising fragment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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Beteiligte<\/h5>\n

Maria Pfl\u00fcger<\/strong>
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Brigitte Draganov<\/strong>
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Gernot Adrion<\/strong>
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J\u00f6rg Breuninger<\/strong>
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Steffen Georgi \/ Jan Linders<\/strong>
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