What about exploring more of Franz Schubert’s music? He was born 225 years ago, which we are celebrating through this year’s Autumn Festival – at the same time as we are introducing you to new concert halls in collaboration with excellent musicians.

For the third year running we’re arranging the Autumn Festival in the first weekend of October. This year we would like to introduce you to the new concert hall FKA in the Hjertnes complex – a hall supplied with a digital acoustic system which we have not tried out on classical music so far. A fantastic contribution to all the arenas we already do have in Sandefjord. Will this be the new chamber music hall, we wonder – well aware of the fact that the concert with the two Schubert string quartets will take place in The Green Hall at Park Hotel. A hall in the best of Wiener style!

Christian Ihle Hadland has the honour of playing the first concert of classical music in FKA, and he would like to programme music by three Sch-composers in his recital: Schubert, Schumann and Schostakovich. A really exciting start to the festival!

The Green Hall at Park Hotel gives us the impression of Viennese grandeur – and thereby of Schubert’s home town. A perfect setting for performances of his String Quartet in G major, D. 887 and Death and the Maiden, D. 810 by the Engegård Quartet. In the interval we’ll introduce you to the Lied which the last quartet is based on. A short opera in itself with two characters: the death and the maiden.

The solo string players of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra – Elise Båtnes, violin, Henninge Båtnes Landaas, viola, Louisa Tuck, cello and Kenneth Ryland, double bass, join the pianist Christian Ihle Hadland for the last concert of the Autumn Festival. They introduce us to Schubert’s beautiful Sonata in A major, D 574 and the piano trio Notturno, D. 897 before all five musicians conclude the festival with one of the most outstanding pieces in the chamber music repertoire: The Trout Quintet. D. 667.

Tickets: NOK 375,-/100,- (youth under the age of 20) + fee

07.10: https://hjertnes.no/hostfestival-2022-christian-ihle-hadland-g9skj3p/
08.10: https://hjertnes.no/hostfestival-2022-engegard-quartet-o5x1kn/
09.10: https://hjertnes.no/hostfestival-2022-forelle-kvintetten-etc-i6p2yk/

For subscription of all three concerts: NOK 900,-/240,-, please contact Kulturelt Initiativ by e-mail: [email protected]

We leave the programme of last summer’s festival on the website as a happy memory of an eventful summer – and have the pleasure of announcing the dates of Midtåsen Culture Festival 2023: July 9 – 23.