Reading with Robert Stadlober
Robert Stadlober (reading) and Hideyo Harada (piano)
Aleksis Kivi The Seven Brothers
Piano music by Selim Palmgren, Jean Sibelius, Erkki Melartin
Their names are Juhani, Aapo, Tuomas, Simeoni, Timo, Lauri and Eero. Juhani, the loudmouth, is the oldest, Eero, smart and cheeky, the youngest of the seven brothers. The Finnish writer Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) created Finland's great national novel with his novel The Seven Brothers. The harshness and cruelty of Finnish rural life in the nineteenth century are captured here in the tone of picaresque stories. Robert Stadlober, who has had a formative influence on German cinema for a quarter of a century, reads from the novel, accompanied by music of Finnish national romanticism, played on the piano by Hideyo Harada.
