String quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-484-5
Composed by Kai Nieminen.
Score and parts. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-484-5.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-484-5).
ISBN
9790550114845.
In
January 1999, Nieminen
worked with his oboe
piece Elegy for Agatha.
The work kept running
through his mind. Its
musically intimate and
intriguing setting seemed
to include sufficient
elements for explicating
a bigger whole. The poem
by Hannele Huovi was the
inspiration of the
sequel: Kuulen virtaavaa
valoa ja se on pimeys (I
can here streaming light
and it is darkness).
In his work, Nieminen
also looks back on his
days in military service.
The mental pictures
created decades ago on
guard during winter frost
amid silence combined
with Huovi's poem took a
musical shape. I Hear
Streaming Light (1999)
for the String Quartet
was created out of these
ideas, which together
with Elegy for Agatha
constitute a whole called
I Can Hear Northern
Lights. All musical
material and melodic
themes of the string
quartet piece originate
from Elegy for Agatha but
they do not appear in
their original forms.
