Festive concert on the Day of German Unity
Christoffer Sundqvist (clarinet), Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin), Paula Sundqvist (violin), Jakob Dingstad (viola) and Jan-Erik Gustafsson (violoncello)
Krzyzstof Penderecki: Clarinet Quintet
Jüri Reinvere: Hävijää for clarinet and string quartet
Bernhard Crusell: Clarinet Quartet No. 3 in D major op. 7
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major KV 581
Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775 - 1838) was a Finnish-Swedish contemporary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Carl Maria von Weber. Like them, he particularly loved the clarinet and left behind moving works in which Christoffer Sundqvist, principal clarinettist of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, demonstrates his skills.