Thursday 16 February

Apollon Musagète Quartett – a hot ensemble

The Zorn Museum, Mora 6pm

AMQ is a Polish string quartet made up of four highly personal musicians in search of new forms for their performances. They are young and hot and not intimidated by the highly emotional String Quartet in C Minor by Shostakovich, dedicated to the victims of fascism and war. Surrounded by Peter Dahl’s passionate artwork, which lends yet another dimension to the experience, we also listen to one of Beethoven’s many string quartets.

Programme
D Sjostakovitj String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor Op. 110
L v Beethoven String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor Op. 132

With Apollon Musagète Quartett made up of Paweł Zalejski, violin, Bartosz Zachłod, violin, Piotr Szumieł, viola and Piotr Skweres, cello.
Duration: Approximately 75 minutes
Admission: SEK 280 • Children/Adolescents SEK 140
Listening seats with screen SEK 180

Fiery Notes

Andreas Chapel, Mora 9pm

A flaming musical encounter. A world-class duo performs in the beautifully intimate Andreas chapel. Together with the dynamic Torlief Thedéen, brilliant Dutch violinist Liza Ferschtman performs Rolf Martinsson’s Fiery Notes, a title that reflects the piece’s glowing and increasingly provocative inner ember and energy. In addition, Liza has chosen a duo by Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff, a Jew and fervent communist, which prompted the Nazis to label his music as degenerate and blacklist it throughout the 1930s. In between, Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello from 1922 dedicated to Debussy.

Programme
R Martinsson Fiery Notes, Duo for Violin and Cello
M Ravel Sonata for violin and cello
E Schulhoff Duo for violin and cello

With Liza Ferschtman, violin, Torleif Thedéen, cello

Duration: Approximately 1 hour
Admission: SEK 200 • Children/Adolescents SEK 100

Friday 17 February

Afternoon Tea at Fryksås

Fryksås Hotell, Orsa 3pm

Enjoy your afternoon tea at Fryksås while listening to and partaking in a discussion between Camilla Lundberg, SVT’s Music Director and Rolf Martinsson, Vinterfest’s Composer in Residence, 2012 about composition in general and Martinsson’s in particular. After the discussion, we will listen to Göran Söllscher, one of the world’s foremost guitarists, as he performs musical gems by Villa-Lobos and Lennon-McCartney, among others. Warm, sensual, genuine, and the closeness to the lone man and his guitar, enhanced by the breathtaking view over lakes Orsasjön and Siljan. A vibrant moment when time stands still.

With Camilla Lundberg, host, Rolf Martinsson, Composer in Residence, Göran Söllscher, guitar

Duration: Approximately 1.5 hour
Admission: SEK 280 • Children/Adolescents SEK 140; tea and scones included in the price
Listening seats in adjacent room for SEK 220; tea and scones included
(Doors open at 2.45pm – please do not arrive before 2.30pm)

Inflame – flaming silver, photos and paintings

Mora Kulturhus, Mora 3-6pm

Attend an art exhibition and see silversmith work and paintings by Bernd Janusch in collaboration with Jane af Sandberg, as well as photographs by photographers Nikolaj Lund and Mats Bäcker.

Duration: 3 hours (the art exhibition will run from 17 February through 7 March)
Free admission

Euphoria & Madness

Mora Church, Mora 6.30pm

Inflame – to fervently be possessed by something to a degree that borders on madness and insanity. This definition did most emphatically apply to Lord Byron. It was with the same frenzy he wrote poetry, took drugs and seduced. Schuman recognised himself in Byron’s verse drama about Manfred – a desperately longing, misunderstood and lost young man – as if it were a portrait of him. He composed the stage music for a drama based on the text. The overture we will hear is the only piece of the sheet music that still exists today. Lucia in Donizetti’s opera is driven mad by the power games the men in her company play. She is portrayed here by opera singer Kerstin Avemo who made the role such a success at the Göteborg Opera in 2011. We will also listen to a clarinet concert written for Martin Fröst. In it, we meet our Composer in Residence, Rolf Martinsson, as he lets the soloist shine while demonstrating his expert skills in orchestration.

Programme
R Schumann Overture from Manfred Op. 115
G Donizetti Lucia’s madness scene from Lucia di Lammermoor
R Martinsson Consert Fantastique

With Kerstin Avemo, Liza Ferschtman, Martin Fröst, DalaSinfoniettan, Bjarte Engeset, and Camilla Lundberg, opening speaker

Duration: Approximately 2 hours, including brief intermission
Admission: SEK 300 • Children/Adolescents SEK 150 • Listening seats SEK 180

* Join the torchlight procession from the church to MoraParken. *

Fire and Flames

Moraparken, Mora 9:30pm

Fire art merges with pyrotechnics and percussion instruments. Fire artists Roland Backlund and Yngve Mauritsson once again design a burning piece of art together with one of Sweden’s foremost pyrotechnicians, Lars Johannesson. Experience fire art and fireworks where the dark winter night intensifies the flames, explosions and colours.

Duration: Approximately 20 minutes
Free admission

Frost & Friends

MoraParken, Mora 10pm

In line with tradition, Martin Fröst gathers his friends for a playful evening that centres on the music, the artists and the audience. Enjoy the musical performances only, or use several senses and have something to eat and drink. You need to buy a separate meal ticket to sample MoraParken’s Vinterfest specialities.

Duration: Approximately 1.5 hour • Admission: SEK 180 • Children/Adolescents SEK 90. Meal ticket: SEK 120 for a plate of cold cuts served during the concert. Beverages not included. Note that this is only in combination with admission to the concert.

Saturday 18 February

Burning for Music

Kaffestugan 1 floor up, Kyrkogatan, Mora 11am

Vinterfest’s Artistic Director and clarinettist Martin Fröst talks with composer Jonas Forssell and the audience about being passionate for music and the climate in Sweden and Europe in terms of cultural policy. How do we make space for classical and contemporary composed music?

Duration: Approximately 1 hour
Admission: SEK 80, coffee included

Little Vinterfest – Albert’s remarkable journey

Music theatre performance for children ages 6-10
Class Gym, Mora 1pm

Music theatre group Sprill & Spratt, made up of Anders Linder and Kerstin Wikström, perform the story about 6-year-old Albert. He’s allergic to furry animals and can therefore not join the children’s Pet Owners Club. And yet, it is to Albert the animals turn with a secret assignment and he embarks on a journey with Arvid the dinosaur, Wild Lone Wolf William, the Lost Horse and the Rambling Reindeer.

Duration: Approximately 1 hour
Admission: SEK 80

Young Jazz at Tingshuset

The Library, Älvdalen 1pm

A favourite return engagement; the Jazz Programme from the Conservatory of Music in Falun is back this year. Listen to young musicians while you enjoy a cup of coffee or tea inside Älvdalen’s beautiful Court House.

Duration: Approximately 45 minutes
Admission: SEK 80, coffee included

Vinterfest in Konsertladan

Vattnäs Konsertlada, Vattnäs, Mora 1pm

Enter Pers Anna Larsson’s refurbished Konsertlada and look out over Lake Orsasjön and the mountains in the distance. Experience the madness of Ophelia’s monologue and the passion in songs by Schubert. Torleif Thedéen interprets Rolf Martinsson’s Exposé on his cello and, to wind up the afternoon, allow yourself to be swept away by Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E Flat.

Programme
A Thomas Ophelia’s madness scene from Hamlet
R Martinsson Exposé, Concert Fantasy
F Schubert Gretchen am Spinnerade
R Schumann Piano Quartet in E Flat, Op. 47

With Kerstin Avemo, soprano, Giovanni Guzzo, violin, Göran Fröst, viola, Torleif Thedéen, cello, Matthew Barley, cello and Julien Quentin, piano. Camilla Lundberg, host

Duration: Approximately 1 hour
Admission: SEK 280 • Children/Adolescents SEK 140

Young Vinterfest – Colours of Groove

Rosa Huset, Mora 6pm

Rhythmic, pulsating and intensive is the result when percussion instrument duo MalleusIncus perform for a younger audience at Rosa Huset. The ensemble, made up of percussionists Johan Bridger and Patrick Raab, has performed together since 1996 and this year made its Asian debut with a tour in Japan. They have received many awards and honours. Expect an assorted programme with everything from music by Bach to recently composed percussion music for lots of drums.

With MalleusIncus made up of percussionists Johan Bridger and Patrick Raab

Duration: Approximately 45 minutes
Admission: SEK 80, includes coffee or soft drink and a sandwich

Vinterfest goes to Hamburg

Älvdalens Church, Älvdalen 5:30pm

Vinterfest’s reputation is spreading throughout Europe. The concert you will hear will be enjoyed by an audience in Laeiszhalle in Hamburg on the Tuesday after Vinterfest. But the premier performance is here and now in the excellent acoustics of Älvdalen Church. In order to let everyone truly shine, we have rented a Steinway D piano from Radiohuset in Stockholm on which Shai Wosner will play. The concert ends with Mozart’s wonderful Clarinet Quintet, during which we again need to sharpen our hearing in order to perceive Martin Fröst’s famous tones from out of nowhere…

Programme
F J Gossec String Quartet in A Major Op. 15 No. 6
C Debussy Rhapsody No.1 for Clarinet and Piano
J Forssell The Seven Mortal Sins
J Brahms Hungarian Dances
W A Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K.581

With Appollon Musagète Quartett, Martin Fröst, clarinet and Shai Wosner, piano

Duration: Approximately 2 hours, including brief intermission
Admission: SEK 280 • Children/Adolescents SEK 140

The Immigrant’s Burning Desire

MoraParken, Mora 10pm

Listen to Per Arne Glorvigen and his bandoneon as he performs traditional Argentine tones, music by Astor Piazzolla and his own compositions. The bandoneon, which over the years has become so intimately associated with the Argentine tango, has one of the leading roles this evening when Norwegian Per Arne Glorvigen introduces himself as musician, composer and comedian.

With Per Arne Glorvigen, bandoneon, Göran Söllscher, guitar and music from DalaSinfoniettan

Duration: Approximately 1.5 hours, including brief intermission
Admission: SEK 260 • Children/Adolescents SEK 130
Before the concert, take the chance to enjoy a delicious two-course dinner at MoraParken, served from 8pm. Dinner ticket: SEK 250

Sunday 19 February

Inferno

Skattunge Church, Skattungbyn, Orsa 1pm

Travel the breathtaking route to Skattungbyn by car or bus. Sit on the church slope, take a deep breath and take in the stunning view. Take your seat in the church and listen to Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Flat. Kreutzer, to whom the sonata is dedicated, refused to perform it, but Liza Ferschtman does it brilliantly. We will also listen to parts of Tolstoy’s notorious novella, The Kreutzer Sonata. A marriage from hell of Strindberg-esque proportions is portrayed here and, following a brief intermission, we also face our very own giant of chaos in a first-time performance of a piece of music set around Stringberg’s Inferno.

Programme
L v Beethoven Kreutzer Sonata No. 9 in A Major for the violin, Op. 47
B Byström Inferno, set around Strindberg’s Inferno

With Liza Ferschtman, violin, Julien Quentin, piano, Stockholm Chamber Brass and Björn Granath, recitation.
Duration: Approximately 1.5 hours, including brief intermission
Admission: SEK 260 • Children/Adolescents SEK 130

The Perpetual Flame

Mora Kyrka, Mora 5pm

The winter is glistening cold outdoors, but the atmosphere inside Mora Church is warm with candles, red-hot bows and sizzling solo performances. The final concert focuses on two composers, Rolf Martinsson whose piece A. S. in Memoriam is composed to the memory of Arnold Schönberg and his masterpiece Verklärte Nacht, and Maurice Ravel, one of the French Impressionists who harboured a burning interest for Gypsy and Hungarian music. In Tzigane he created a gypsy-esque score, which in 1924 denoted a type of popular musical exoticism.

Ravel, born in Basque, identified deeply with his Basque heritage and said that the Piano Trio, ranked as one of the genre’s foremost, was “Basque in colouring”. The composition had slowly matured over many years, but as the outbreak of WWI approached in 1914 and Ravel was to enlist immediately, he writes to Igor Stravinsky, “The idea that I should be leaving at once made me get through five months’ work in five weeks! My Trio is finished.” Inflamed, indeed!

Programme
R Martinsson A. S. in Memoriam Op. 50a
M Ravel Tzigane
M Ravel Piano Trio

With Liza Ferschtman, violin, Giovanni Guzzo, violin, Matthew Barley, cello, Shai Wossner, piano, DalaSinfoniettan and Bjarte Engeset, conductor.

Duration: Approximately 2 hours, including brief intermission
Admission: SEK 300 • Children/Adolescents SEK 150
Listening seats with screen SEK 180