Beethoven at the height of his creative powers! We open Middle Beethoven with three masterpieces that reveal his boundless inventiveness, dramatic temperament and extraordinary ability to reinvent musical forms.

The celebrated French pianist Cédric Tiberghien opens the evening with the Eroica Variations, in which Beethoven takes a simple theme and transforms it with seemingly limitless imagination. The Engegård Quartet performs the intense and uncompromising Serioso Quartet, before the evening culminates in the magnificent Archduke Trio, performed by Sarah Nemtanu, Klaus Mäkelä and Olli Mustonen.

A festive evening in the University Aula, celebrating Beethoven at his most daring and magnificent!

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

15 Variations and Fugue in E-flat major, Op. 35 — “Eroica Variations”
Cédric Tiberghien, piano

String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 — “Serioso”
Engegård Quartet

Interval

Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 97 — “Archduke”
Sarah Nemtanu, violin
Klaus Mäkelä, cello
Olli Mustonen, piano