12.9.2023
19:00
Ticketmaster and Musiikkitalo ticket booth:
Standard 23–41 €
Discount groups 18–33 €
Any costs of the ticket agent are added to the price.

Meet’n Greet at the Foyer at 6 pm. Duration of the concert about 70 minutes, no intermission.

AUF
Avanti, UMO Helsinki & Fibo feat. Uri Caine, Paleface & Sounds of Mercy

Bach to Jazz – Bach-Goldberg Variations by Uri Caine 

Tue 12 September 2023 at 7 pm // Musiikkitalo, Helsinki


12.9.2023
19:00
Ticketmaster and Musiikkitalo ticket booth:
Standard 23–41 €
Discount groups 18–33 €
Any costs of the ticket agent are added to the price.

Meet’n Greet at the Foyer at 6 pm. Duration of the concert about 70 minutes, no intermission.

The concert program >> 

The co-operation between three independent orchestras from Helsinki, the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO), and the Helsinki Music Centre continues with a concert that brings classical music and jazz together.  The concert is part of AUF, a co-operation between the three orchestras that has been going on since autumn 2017.

This time, the collective jumps bravely at the chance to work together with the composer, arranger and pianist Uri Caine with his Bach–Goldberg Variations. Guest artists at the concert Tuesday 12th September are the rapper Paleface and the gospel choir Sounds of Mercy. Uri Caine himself plays the piano and arranges the music.

Come and join also the pre-concert Meet’n Greet of the AUF orchestras, i.e. Avanti, UMO and FiBO, starting at 6 om at the Musiikkitalo Foyer. Free entry.

After the actual concert, those who wish can stay in the hall for a chamber music moment, where FiBO’s musicians play parts of Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge. The duration is about 20 minutes.

Uri Caine (b. 1956, USA) is a versatile composer with a very wide range. Among other music, he has recorded classical music, chamber music, jazz, soulfunk, Brazilian pop and older American popular music. Caine has drawn attention with his unconventional and unpredictable versions of classical works by Mahler, Wagner, Schumann and Bach. Caine’s wild, free and challenging interpretation of the Goldberg Variations, one of Bach’s later works, is a luscious collision of baroque, classical music and jazz.

J.S. Bach (1685–1750) composed his Goldberg Variations around the year 1742 for his benefactor Hermann Karl von Keyserling, with the intent to help his insomnia with soothing and mellow night music. In the late 1990’s, Uri Caine started working on the variations and created his own monumental Gesamtkunstwerk around them. Caine has not only made jazz versions of the old, classical pieces, but he has rather made a deep dive into the music, captured the essence of the composer’s original work and joined it with his own musical inventions and desires, while keeping to the spirit of Bach’s work.

For this concert, Uri Caine is rearranging a selection of the 70 variations for the unique ensemble consisting of the three orchestras. Every orchestra as well as smaller joint ensembles bring their own flavour to this delightful and surprising genre soup. The versatile rapper Paleface together with the choir Sounds of Mercy, consisting of the best Finnish gospel singers lead by Jepa Lambert, convey the moods and hold the gigantic work together, from the baroque pastiches to the arias and from the disco moments to the hip hop. The concert ends with a joint final culmination with the three orchestras. 

 

 

Uri Caine, arrangements, piano 

Paleface

Sounds of Mercy, cond. Jepa Lambert

Avanti! Chamber Orchestra

UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, cond. Ed Partyka

Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO)

 

Avanti! Chamber Orchestra operates with ease across different eras and genres, stretching to any music, with any instruments. avantimusic.fi

The UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra plays a wide variety of music, from jazz to soul and classical music, surprisingly combining the new and the old. umohelsinki.fi

The Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) is known for its skillful performances, bold and innovative working methods and creative approach to concert programming. fibo.fi



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