Cello (Cello)
SKU:
HL.14028556
Composed
by Kaija Saariaho. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Book
[Softcover]. 24 pages.
Music Sales #HH00111.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14028556).
ISBN
9788759852446.
8.5x11.75x0.065 inches.
English.
This
composition was written
quickly in a matter of
days, however the
composer describes the
longer process of writing
the piece as unconscious
preparation. There are
opposite elements on
display within the piece,
fragile coloristic
passages give birth to
energetic events with
clear rhythmic and
melodic charachter. More
sharpely focused figures
pass through different
transformations then
finally merge back to
less dynamic but no less
intensive filigration. In
bringing these
compositional elements
together and by forcing
opposite modes of
expression, the composer
has aimed to force the
listener to stretch their
own sensibility. Work for
Cello and Electronics
which was premiered by
Anssi Karttunen at the
Musica Nova Festival,
Bremen in May 1988.