The City in the Sea

At the Finnish Institute, chamber music and poetry come together as musicians from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and actor Maria Salomaa present a programme that moves between sea, dream and verse. Kaija Saariaho’s evocative Laconisme de l’aile (The Terseness of a Wing) is paired with Matthew Whittall’s The City in the Sea, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s vision of a sunken city, before the concert concludes with Debussy’s masterly Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp. The music is reflected in poetry by the Finnish writers Sanna Karlström and Markku Paasonen.