Reading with music
Reading with Frank Arnold and Jan Brachmann (piano)
Reading from Matti MäkeläThe Geese, Eino SäisäThe Home Tree and Solveig von Schoultzcharcoal drawing, unfinished
Piano music by Jean Sibelius, Erkki Melartin, Agnes Tschetschulin and Ilmari Hannikainen
The Baltic region was already culturally united in the Middle Ages by Christianity, the Hanseatic League and soon also by music. The Finnish Baroque Orchestra brings sacred and secular festive music to Usedom, including music by the Italian Carlo Farina, who worked in Gdansk. In between, Ilkka Heinonen improvises on a traditional instrument of Finnish folklore, the bowed lyre, jouhikko in Finnish.
