Hanko Sings - Spring Concert April 6, 2026

Hanko Sounds - Concert Series: ”To Freedom”

Concert for Spring and Easter
Monday, April 6, at 2 PM in the Festivity Hall of Hanko City Hall.

Beethoven's spacious and luminous Violin Concerto delights with soulful pastoral melodies and contemplative shadowiness, but also with strong willpower. The end of the work evokes an uplifting sense of universal liberation. Beethoven has been considered one of the loneliest figures in music history, and the composer, who enjoyed nature walks, himself said he loved 'trees more than people.' It is astonishing how much light and humanity the isolated Beethoven managed to draw into his only violin concerto.

Before the journey with Beethoven, however, the concert will open with Latvian Peteris Vasks' duo for violin and cello, ”Castillo interior”. The stripped-down and honest musical language connects to the parables of the 16th-century nun Teresa of Ávila, who described the human soul as a castle with several different “dwellings”. In the ”inner castle” dwellings of composer Vasks, one hears vulnerability, weariness, pain, and questions, but ultimately also deep peace. From this, it is natural to transition to the lightness of spring in Beethoven's company.

Peteris Vasks: Castillo interior

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major
(arr. C. Hinde for violin and string quintet)

Knuut Nissinen, violin soloist
Martin Granström and Lorenzo Pap, violin
Arttu Nummela, viola
Matti Skyttä, cello
Vilhelm Karlsson, double bass

duration approx. 55 min

Admission at the door 20/15 €
For Hanko soi members 15/13 €
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