Clarinet
SKU:
HL.50600566
Clarinet Solo.
Composed by Osmo Tapio
Räihälä.
Woodwind Solo. Classical.
Softcover. 10 pages.
Sikorski #SIK8811.
Published by Sikorski
(HL.50600566).
8.25x11.75x0.07
inches.
The Finnish
composer Osmo Tapio
Räihälä reports
that he experienced a
phase whilst working on
his Horn Concerto in 2011
during which he had the
feeling of “having
landed in a
deadendâ€. To find a
remedy, he decided to
develop a kind of
“finger
exercise†for
composers, comparable to
the “warming-up
process of an
instrumental soloist
before performingâ€.
Räihälä
remembers furthermore:
“Instead of writing
for orchestra, I started
a short solo piece for
clarinet. Little did I
know that I had opened a
Pandora's box! I wrote
'Soliloque 1:
Étoffé' in two
days. Perhaps this frenzy
caused the music to
become restless, with
quick turns – in
short, a rather virtuosic
etude. The clarinet seeks
paths, at first without
success, but obviously
finding one in the end.
And what about the
Pandora's Box? I had
given the title the
number one, and during
the next two years I
wrote five more
Soliloques, solos of six
to seven minutes, for
various instruments, as
well as one for soprano a
cappella. The title
Étoffé means
'rich', or 'well
rounded', but also
'fabric' or even a
'patch' - and I felt that
I had patched something
in my work that was
broken; indeed, working
on the concerto now gave
me a fresh
start.â€.
