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Juha Iivarinen

@juhaiivarinen

Lover of classical music: opera (Händel, Mozart, Wagner etc.) lieder, orchestral music, history, literature, navigation and F1. #thalassophile

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Tonight’s concert: Brahm’s piano concerto 1 and Schönberg’s Pelleas und Melisande

04.03.2026 16:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Asam Kirche

22.02.2026 11:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Real winter wonderland in Ekenäs/Tammisaari, Finland

12.02.2026 14:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As a Finn I would say that doesn’t sound sweary at all: just Swedish with hot potato in the mouth

10.02.2026 15:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Helsinki cathedral in winter sunshine

09.02.2026 18:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Winter wonderland! Temperature at the moment -13 C, but during the night about -24 C, which has created the frost flowers in the trees

31.01.2026 15:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What an excellent combination

29.01.2026 09:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

”Vanja was tired” (The second sentence on the 42nd page of the book near me.)

21.01.2026 20:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No, not at all (I am a Finn)

17.01.2026 14:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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12.01.2026 19:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lite för tidigt…

02.01.2026 14:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for the hint! I just realized that I can see this through #3SAT mediathek

01.01.2026 22:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Emperor of Japan - could be worse…

30.12.2025 13:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Of course, we do.

30.12.2025 11:20 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hauskaa joulua! God Jul! Frohe Weihnachten! Merry Christmas!

24.12.2025 08:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Heh heh!

14.12.2025 09:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We celebrate Santa Lucia today in Finland (and Sweden) as well

13.12.2025 19:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I would not have recognized Mozart, and Beethoven looks like Wagner…

12.12.2025 18:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hauskaa pikkujoulua! Glad lillajul! Happy Little Christmas! Frohe kleine Weinacht!

29.11.2025 17:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great stuff! Even if I am not a Swede…

21.11.2025 09:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

True, but he has Finnish citizenship

20.11.2025 19:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

… and Nico Rosberg

20.11.2025 18:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

As you are into Norse mythology you might want to take a look at Kalevala. Not an easy read but far better than Norse sagas in my very biased opinion. Also one of the inspirations for Tolkien to write LotR

12.11.2025 11:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A view to the Gulf of Finland

18.10.2025 15:24 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Some pictures from The Musiikkitalo on Helsinki

18.10.2025 15:02 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Great sunset also today!

28.09.2025 15:27 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Siniset this evening

27.09.2025 16:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That was Nicholas II. Both were terrible but for different reasons

25.09.2025 10:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great pictures!

17.09.2025 09:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How silently, how slyly
When once the scent is taken
The huntsman tracks the spoor
- Nicola Francesco Haym

11.09.2025 12:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0