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(String Quartet). Composed by Mohammed Fairouz. For String Quartet (Score and Pa...(+)
(String Quartet).
Composed by Mohammed
Fairouz. For String
Quartet (Score and
Parts). Peermusic
Classical. Peermusic
#70089-759. Published by
Peermusic
String Quartet SKU: FG.55011-553-8 Allerheiligentag III. Composed ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-553-8
Allerheiligentag
III. Composed by
Jyrki Linjama. Classical.
Score and Parts. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-553-8.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-553-8).
Jyrki Linjama's
second string quartet
(2018) is subtitled
Allerheiligentag III. The
material for the
Allerheiligentag cycle is
a Finnish folk chorale
for All Saints' Day (no.
146 in the Finnish Hymn
Book). The first work in
the cycle is a string
trio (2007), the second a
piece for orchestra
(2009), and the fourth
and fifth are solo works
for viola da gamba and
violin.The composer
tells: The choice of
topic and material for
the string trio was
originally prompted by
the venue at which it was
to be premiered: the old
church on the island of
Seili (Sjalo). The bleak
history of the island's
leper and mental hospital
evoked images of
suffering and death. I
got so attached to the
harsh and beautiful
melody that it began to
generate a whole cycle.
The string quartet is in
three movements
(slow-quick-slow) tensed
in different ways by
contrasts. The first
movement has both
swinging softness and
cutting sharpness, the
Scherzo the wildness of a
dance of death and
lyricism, and the finale
the irrevocability of a
funeral march and tender
melodiousness.