Guitar
SKU:
HL.14017586
For
Guitar. Composed by
Jouni Kaipainen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. 20
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP01518.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14017586).
ISBN
9788759879412.
English-Danish.
Pre
face I Programme Note
TENEBRAE was commissioned
by the Turku (Abo) Music
Festival and composed for
Finnish guitarist Timo
Korhonen, whom I had
known and admired for a
long time. Timo gave a
brillant premiere of
TENEBRAE in Turku on
August 13, 1991 and has
played it several times
since then. The title is
Latin, and means darkness
or gloom, but it also
refers to the Roman
Catholic matins and lauds
services in Holy Week.
These are held as dusk
falls, and the idea is
that the sixteen candles
that are burning at the
beginning of the service
are gradually
extinguished until, after
sixteenprayers, the
church is in darkness.
The same development is
carried through
inTENEBRAE by musical
means, so that we have
not yet had to resort to
acandlelit setting -
although it is by no
means out of the
question. The piece makes
extensive use of the
guitar's properties for
revealing quiet, intimate
feelings, although
naturally in a work of
this scope there is
contrasting material
included. Jouni
Kaipainen, 1993.