Trombone
SKU:
FG.55011-487-6
Composed by Kalevi Aho.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-487-6. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-487-6).
ISBN
9790550114876.
One
of the big projects of
Kalevi Aho (b. 1949) has
been to create a virtuoso
solo piece for every
central instrument of the
symphony orchestra. When
the Italian Risuonanza
Festival asked for a solo
trombone piece, the
composer was glad,
because the trombone solo
was still lacking from
the Solo series. Kalevi
Aho tells: I like the
trombone as an
instrument, and I had
before the Solo XIII
composed already two big
trombone works. In my
Symphony No. 9 (1994) I
have used the trombone as
a solo instrument - in
the premiere the Swedish
trombonist Christian
Lindberg played its
demanding solo part - and
2010 I composed also a
big trombone concerto for
the Dutch trombonist
Jorgen van Rijen. In Solo
XIII (2017) I could
utilize my knowledge
about the possibilities
of the instrument. The
piece is in one movement,
but it includes several
slower and faster
sections. It is a
virtuoso piece, but the
virtuosity comes from the
psychological contents of
the work and its form is
dramaturgically quite
clear. Rocco Rescigno
played the premiere at
the Risuonanze Festival
in Pasian di Prato, on 31
May 2019. The duration of
the piece is c. 9
minutes.
