PROGRAM/TICKETS
The sale of tickets and festival passes started on Monday 15 January 2024 at 12.00. By pressing the button below, you can download a pdf with the detailed concert programme. Here you will find an overview of place, day, date and time, as well as who is playing which works.
NB No refunding of sold tickets.
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NB June 26: Martin Fröst has unfortunately cancelled due to illness. We have therefore made some changes in the program for Monday, July 8 and Tuesday, July 9. For his participation on Thursday July 11 and Friday July 12 he will be replaced by the Finnish clarinetist Tuulia Ylönen.
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NB April 16: Liza Ferschtman unfortunately had to cancel her participation in Lofoten. The young Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang will replace her in some concerts.
The concerts in chronological order
This overview shows the concerts in the official programme. Any concerts outside the official program is published on Facebook, our websites and at other concerts.
The opening and final concerts in the main program are approx. 90 minutes without intermission. The evening concerts are about 60-75 minutes, and without intermission. Concerts at 9.30 PM are about 30 minutes.
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NB: in all the churches, toilet conditions are limited.
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Festival passes are marked with KO for the all concerts, KV for the evening concerts and FE for the opening and final concerts (see menu selection about passports).
Extra concert: Galleri Lille Kabelvåg, Kabelvåg
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Monday July 8 at 1 PM, Duration: 60 min
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Artists: Chaos String Quartet
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Passport: not in any passport
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Unnumbered seats
Mozart: String Quartet in B flat major, K. 159
Grieg: String Quartet in G minor, op. 27
Folk music, in arrangements by The Danish String Quartet
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Made possible through MERITA (se menu under "about the festival)
Lofoten Culture House, Svolvær
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Opening concert - Monday 8.7 at 8 PM, Duration 90 min
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Passport: KO KV FAIRY
Our opening concert is a festive concert where we present all the artists in an extrovert program of shorter pieces. Download program file to see details.
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Music by Mozart, Grieg, Fauré, Schumann, Schubert, Halvorsen, Wolf and others.
Stamsund church
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Tuesday 9.7 at 7 PM, Duration: 70 min
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Passport: KO KV
Robert Schumann: 5 Songs, Op. 40
Mark Padmore, tenor
Imogen Cooper, piano
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 74
The Engegård Quartet
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Franz Schubert: Fantasy in F minor D 940
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Paul Lewis, piano
Borge church, Bøstad
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Tuesday 9.7 at 9.30 PM, Duration: 60 min
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Passport: KO KV
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sarabande and Gigue from suite no. 1
Marko Ylönen, cello
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Francis Poulenc: Sonata for cello and piano
Marko Ylönen, cello
Roman Rabinovich, piano
György Kurtág: From the collection «Játékok» (Playing) and «Jelek» (Signs) (1994)
(1926 - )
- Hommage à Farkas Ferenc 3 (Evocation of Petrushka)
- Agitato
- Aus der Ferne (Alfred Schlee zum 80. Geburtstag)
- Giusto
- Les Adieux in Janáceks Manier
- Lento
- Sirens of the Deluge - Waiting for Noah
- Vivo, feroce
- An Apocryphal Hymn (In the style of Alfred Schnittke)
- Adagio
- Hommage à Fracas Ferenc 2 (Scraps of a Colina Melody - Faintly Recollected
- Con slancio, risoluto
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Juliet Jopling, viola
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Robert Schumann: Widmung - from Frauenliebe und Leben
Vilde Frang, violin
Roman Rabinovich, piano
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Lofoten Cathedral,
Kabelvåg
Wednesday 10.7 at 7 PM
Passport: KO KV
Duration: 70 min
Franz Liszt: Fra "Harmonies poétique et relégieuses":
Nr. 8: Miserere d`après Palestrina
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Franz Liszt: 6 Consolations
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
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Hugo Wolf: Five songs:
- Ob der Koran von Ewigkeit sei?
- Trunken müssen wir alle sein!
- As long as one is sober
- Sie haben wegen der Drunkenheit
- Was in der Schenke waren heute
Mark Padmore, tenor
Fuko Ishii, piano
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Ernö Dohnanyi: Piano Quintet No. 2 in E flat minor
Roman Rabinovich, piano
The Engegård Quartet
Buksnes church, Gravdal,
Finale!
Saturday 13.7 at 7 PM Passport: KO KV FE
Duration: 90 min
FINAL CONCERT!
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Our last concert is an exiting ending where we have collected all the encores. The show and humor factor is high here.
The program is made during the festival and will be a surprise for us all!
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Paul Lewis, piano (artistic director)
Arvid Engegård, violin (artistic director)
Imogen Cooper, piano
Fuko Ishii, piano
Roman Rabinovich, piano
Martin Fröst, clarinet
Mark Padmore, tenor
Marko Ylönen, cello
The Engegård Quartet