Mezzo-soprano voice,
piano
SKU:
FG.55011-706-8
The
Hades of the Birds - Song
cycle to poems by P.
Mustapaa. Composed by
Joonas Kokkonen. Score.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-706-8. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-706-8).
ISBN
9790550117068.
Pian
o reduction available for
the first time! Joonas
Kokkonen's The Hades of
the Birds consists of
three songs, two shorter
ones framing a longer
middle one. The chosen
poems were by P. Mustapaa
(alias Martti Haavio,
1899-1973), and their
appeal lay for him in
their simply unique
mysticism. The music
merges seamlessly with
the moods of the poems,
closely reacting to the
textual
nuances.
The
original Hades of the
Birds was scored for
orchestra. Kokkonen did
not make a piano version
as such because he had
always conceived of it as
orchestral. The
importance of the
orchestral element should
not, however, be
overemphasised, because
this is a work painted in
clear, delicate,
water-colours, not in
heavy, colourful
brush-strokes. For colour
was, he said, always only
a secondary factor for
him. Hence the piano
version also seeks to
bring out the essential
musical substance of the
work.
Osat /
songs:
1.
Taydellisyyden maassa [In
the World of Perfection]
(c1-g2)
2. Lintujen
tuonela [The Hades of the
Birds] (h-g2)
3. Sade
[Rain] (cis1-a2).
Algérie
rahmouni-mustapha
