Splendor of Baroque and charm of Viennese classicism at KSO's season concert on April 16th

Published 11.04.2025

Orchestra conducted by Reinhard Goebel, master of early music

The Kuopio Symphony Orchestra’s season series concert From Chaos to Clarity at the Kuopio Music Centre’s Concert Hall on Wednesday 16th of April at 6 pm will offer the audience Baroque dance forms and charming early Viennese classicism. The orchestra will be conducted by the early music specialist and legend, Reinhard Goebel. The composers of the evening include the French Jean-Féry Rebel, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Pierre Montan Berton as well as the Austrian Joseph Haydn and the German Johann Christian Bach. Before the concert at 5 pm the KSO Autumn Season 2025 program will be published to the audience at the Music Centre’s Hall of Light.

The KSO’s season series concert on the 16th of April represents styles between the Baroque and early Viennese classicism. The evening has been brilliantly planned by Reinhard Goebel, a renowned specialist in early music and increasingly also a conductor of symphony and chamber orchestras. He was active in the Musica Antiqua Köln ensemble for 33 years and has produced an impressive number of recordings. Goebel has also been a professor of historical performance practice at the Mozarteum in Salzburg since 2010.

The concert begins with excerpts from Jean-Féry Rebel’s Les Éléments Suite and Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes Suite, both of which are at the very heart of French Baroque with their dance forms and exquisite musical ornamentation. Pierre Montan Berton’s “grand chaconne” also represents Baroque music at its best, in which a dazzlingly rich fabric of variations is built on an unchanging bass line.

The concert’s composers, Joseph Haydn and Johann Christian Bach, the youngest of Bach’s sons, are both on the side of classicism in terms of time and style. However, the proximity of the Baroque is still present in the counterpoint and in the use of dance forms as a source of inspiration. Programmatic themes can be found in the evening’s works. Chaos from Rebel’s Les Éléments Suite, in which chaos finds order, is one of the first pieces of programmatic music. Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes explores exotic themes and foreign cultures through the peephole of its own time. The clucking motif in Haydn’s Symphony No. 83 has given the work the nickname “the hen”. Johann Christian Bach’s Amadis des Gaules draws inspiration from a medieval heroic tale.

Before the concert at 5 pm the KSO Autumn Season 2025 program will be published to the audience at the Music Centre’s Hall of Light. After that at 5:30 pm, a Pre-Talk event open to everyone is organized.

Tickets: 33 € / 27 € senior citizens and groups min. 20 persons / 11 € children under the age of 16 and students
4 € concert day discount ticket for students and young people under the age of 20 (available for purchase on the concert day at the Kuopio Music Centre Ticket Office)

Prices include the Kuopio Music Centre service fee 2 € / ticket. The service fees vary depending on the place of purchase.

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