Larufest: Many Forms of Love

The works in this concert highlight deep emotional expression, guiding the listener toward light and liberation. 

Pēteris Vasks’s meditative music from 2011, rooted in nature and spirituality, is paired with a song that Schubert composed in Vienna in 1828, the year of his death, in which changing feelings of longing, joy, and wistfulness are reflected in nature through different shades of emotion. 

The intensely charged glow of Franck’s quintet, composed in Paris between 1880 and 1882, waits for its release into light in the work’s finale.

Program:

Pēteris Vasks: Plainscapes
Mackenzie Melemed, piano, Petteri Iivonen, violin, Marko Ylönen, cello

Franz Schubert:  Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965
Emma Kajander, soprano, Tuulia Ylönen, clarinet, Keigo Mukawa, piano

César Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor
Keigo Mukawa, piano, Quatuor Hanson

Lauttasaari Church

13.6.2026

16.00-17.15

Tickets 15-30€

Larufest – Lauttasaari Music Festival, 7 & 11–14 June
Lauttasaari Church, Oodi Central Library and Restaurant Blue Peter