String orchestra
SKU:
FG.55011-333-6
Composed by Einojuhani
Rautavaara. Study score.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-333-6. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-333-6).
ISBN
9790550113336.
A
group in their own right
is formed by the three
string orchestra works
written in memory of, and
reverence for, Hungarian
composers of great
stature: Epitaph for Bela
Bartok, Hommage a Zoltan
Kodaly and a homage to
Liszt, that virtuosic
composer par excellence
of the Romantic era. I
have incorporated the two
most essential
characteristics of
Liszt's music - luscious
romanticism and virtuosic
elan - into the mood and
colourful spectrum of the
string orchestra sound.
Melodic and harmonic
material dominated at
first by an augmented
fourth and laterby a
perfect fourth forms the
mainstay of the while
work and provides a
unifying element.
(Einojuhani
Rautavaara).
