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Heavenly angels: Turku's new harp debuts in Rautavaara and Mozart

By Olli Lehtonen, 29 January 2017
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Reviewed at Turku Concert Hall, Turku on 27 January 2017
Programme
Rautavaara, Ballad for harp and strings
Mozart, Concerto for Flute and Harp in C major, K299 (K297c)
Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op.4
Performers
Päivi Severeide, Harp
Niamh McKenna, Flute
Jan Söderblom, Conductor
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
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Olli Lehtonen
Olli Lehtonen
Olli Lehtonen is a sixth year musicology student and a Bachelor of Arts from Turku, Finland. Although Olli has a popular music background he has a vast knowledge of classical music thanks to his studies and hobby. Apart from popular and classical music his passion is film music that goes way back to Western classical music tradition. His specialities are orchestral pieces of the Romantic Era and 20th-century modernists. In his free time he watches films, plays in different bands and goes to concerts both local and out of town.