Opening Concert: Breaking Loose

Welcome to the official opening of the Gloger Festival 2027! The opening concert gives us a small glimpse of what we can expect during the festival days. We begin with a proper organ battle, where festival organist Benjamin Alard wrestles with Tjark Pinne, organist at Oslo Cathedral. One of the truly new additions to the city's musical life, the singer Irina Korchuganova, performs Folk Songs by Luciano Berio – a legendary work that gives us insight into the turning point between contemporary music in 1964 and folk music from various corners of the world. We are immensely proud to present Håkon Austbø in this year's programme, who in this concert performs three of Debussy's preludes. The concert ends with the Engegård Quartet in some of what they do best and are most famous for: Beethoven. And with that the Gloger Festival is officially under way. Programme: Mozart: Sonata for piano four hands in C major, K.19d Berio: Folk Songs Debussy: 3 Preludes from Book 1 Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Serioso, Op. 95

• Benjamin Alard
• Tjark Pinne
• Irina Korchuganova
• Håkon Austbø
• Ingeborg Fjæran Tveit
• Steponas Plukas
• Gunnar Flagstad
• Erik Raude
• John Ivar Knutzen

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