Monday at last with guitar

String trio ZPR was founded by Cecilia Zilliacus, violin; Johanna Persson, viola; and Kati Raitinen, cello. Monday at Last is a concert subscription in which ZPR, now for the twelfth year in a row, invites guest musicians to explore new and old music together, often in close contact with the audience.

Finnish guitar virtuoso Petri Kumela has been invited to this concert. His repertoire is vast and varied and includes music by Johann Sebastian Bach as well as flamenco, avantgarde and Spanish guitar classics. Here, we meet him in some of the pieces that take animals as their source of inspiration, commissioned from a number of contemporary composers. The requests were simple: the piece has to be short, and the animal in question no bigger than a cat. A cat also has the main role role and a theoretical experiment suggested by Erwin Schröder in 1935. This inspired Paul Ruders to compose twelve clever and evocative canons for guitar and violin. 

Amanda Maier-Röntgen’s String Quartet was premiered only a couple of years ago. The existence of the manuscript was known for some 20 years, but it was unfinished. Then the composer and conductor B Tommy Andersson completed the music, in the style and spirit of Amanda Maier-Röntgen. We get to hear this this quartet as well as music by Julius Röntgen, who Amanda Maier married in 1880.

In collaboration with ZPR.