20.09.24, 19:00, ECMA: Paddington Trio, Javus Quartett & Susato Trio, Sibelius, Jongen & Salieri

Jean Sibelius, Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, and Borys Lyatoshynsky. A fairly well-known Finn for which further explanation is completely superfluous. A Spaniard virtually unknown outside Spain, who in an unguarded moment — by other Spaniards — has been compared to Mozart. And the founding father of Ukrainian modernism, who has been known to manifest himself in a series of parallel fifths; walk into a bar for an evening’s programme in which the crème de la crème of the youngest generation of chamber musicians show their worth.

Summer holidays with rich, expansive sounds in Korpo (an island in the Turku archipelago in south-west Finland; highly recommended, particularly fine summer holidays there, I thought I’d let you know). Light and elegant Mozartian string quartets in minor that sound suspiciously major. And Eastern European mysticism, grandeur and melancholy. Cultural adventurers: gather round.