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Folk Inspirations with Pekka and Sam

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Programme

  • JANÁČEK arr KUUSISTO

    Kreutzer Sonata

  • TRAD/AMIDON

    Appalachian Folk Songs (with string arrangements by NICO MUHLY)

  • MAZZOLI

    Dissolve, O My Heart

  • SIBELIUS

    Symphony No 3

Pekka Kuusisto Violin / Director
Sam Amidon Voice / Banjo / Acoustic Guitar

Inspirational Finnish multi-musician Pekka Kuusisto makes a spectacular return to the SCO with an exciting residency in the 2022/23 Season.

He’s joined by friend and colleague Sam Amidon, US neo-folk singer/songwriter, in pitch-black murder ballads and music of obsessive love from the USA and Europe. Janáček’s Kreutzer Sonata – arranged by Kuusisto from a string quartet to a full string orchestra – was inspired by a scandalous Tolstoy novella of desire, jealousy and murderous rage, reflecting the composer’s own obsessive love for a woman 38 years his junior. Interwoven between its movements, Amidon sings folk songs from rural Appalachia of crime, redemption and transcendental vision.

Kuusisto brings the wide-ranging concert to a glowing conclusion with one of Sibelius’s most buoyant, optimistic symphonies, weaving together threads of Finnish folk and classical refinement.

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