Small ensemble
SKU:
FG.55011-415-9
Composed by Hannu
Pohjannoro. Performance
score. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-415-9. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-415-9).
ISBN
9790550114159.
Born
in 1963, Hannu Pohjannoro
is widely acclaimed as a
composer of quiet,
restrained music. It has
been said of his music
that it seems to have
been 'sketched with a
sounding quill':
Pohjannoro is a composer
for whom the magic of
different pianissimo
shades is of the utmost
importance. Though
Pohjannoro's aesthetic is
distinctly modernist, he
nonetheless acknowledges
the importance for the
compositional process of
knowing and understanding
musicaltradition. A
portrait of Beethoven
hangs in his study to
remind him that the
combination of visceral
musical expression and
structural strength and
clarity is still an ideal
to which every composer
should strive.
Of this work, the
composer says: images,
hommages is a series of
miniature tributes to a
number of artists whose
works have had a profound
effect on me - though,
naturally, many other
artists could have been
included too. I wanted to
avoid any form of musical
quotation, so from the
outset I decided to
exclude other composers
from the list altogether.
As the focus of these
miniatures, I therefore
selected exponents of
abstract art and some of
the greatest storytellers
of the twentieth century
- or, rather, examples of
their works.
images, hommages presents
musical tributes to
artists including Albers,
Mondrian, Malevich,
Kandinsky, Pollock,
Kafka, Harms, Calvino and
Borges.
images,
hommages was awareded
with the second prize at
the VIII International
Henri Dutilleux
Composition Contest in
2017.
Each
musician will need their
own copy of the
performances score.
jan-harms
