Piano
SKU:
FG.55011-676-4
Composed by Juhani
Nuorvala. Classical.
Book. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-676-4. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-676-4).
Juhani Nuorvala
(b. 1961) wrote The Five
Chords That Shook My
World (2020) for pianist
Nicolas Horvath's Hommage
a Glass project and it is
dedicated to him. It's a
fantasy meditation on the
Train/Spaceship chords in
Einstein, that repeating
five-chord progression
(Fm - Db - A - B7 - E)
about which the composer
has said that there's
something strange,
because it never fails to
lift the audience to its
feet. The duration of the
piece is c. 6'30'', and
it was premiered by Emil
Holmstrom at RUSK
festival (Pietarsaari,
Finland) 20th November
2020. A notable variety
of influences -
microtonality, American
minimalism, New
Romanticism, popular
music, techno - has been
regarded as a special
feature of Nuorvala's
idiom. Despite this he is
not a collage artist;
instead he has blended
various ingredients to
create a mode of
expression entirely his
own. Nuorvala's works are
often marked with
frenzied rhythmic drive.
He makes music using
elements and materials
that both the mind and
the body respond to. He
finds these elements not
only in old or new
classical music but in
various forms of urban
popular music, such as
the electronic music of
modern dance clubs.
