Flute, piano
SKU:
FG.55011-613-9
Composed by Kai Nieminen.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-613-9. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-613-9).
ISBN
9790550116139.
The
music of Finnish composer
Kai Nieminen (b. 1953)
does not conform to any
isms. He remarks: I feel
like I am a painter in
music, who having seen or
experienced something
attempts to give that
something a shape in
music. The flute concerto
Palomar was written for
Patrick Gallois and
premiered 2001 in Milan,
Italy. The idea for his
Flute Concerto came to
Nieminen at the Villa
Lante in Rome when he was
kept awake by persistent
birdsong in the heat of
the night. The title
alludes to the last
novel, Palomar, by Italo
Calvino. Though Nieminen
finds inspiration in
literature, the visual
arts and nature, he has
no desire to confine the
listener to any
programme. The aim of the
extra-musical stimuli is
at most to fire his
listeners' imagination
and to make them savour
musical visions with a
mind as open as that of
Calvino's Mr Palomar
examining the little
wonders of the world
around him. The
orchestral score is
available for sale (ISMN
9790550096370) and the
performance material for
hire from Fennica
Gehrman.