• Nosztalgiaim ..... woodwind quintet, string quintet, tr, trb • Sade avaa ........ solo bass clarinet + chamber orchestra: flute, cor
anglais, bassoon, horn, percussion (1 player), violin, viola, cello,
double bass • Culla d'aria ....... string quartet • Naisen
rakkautta ja elamaa, song cycle for three female voices and ensemble
........ 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, flute (doubling alto flute in G),
clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), percussion (1 player), piano, violin,
cello, double bass
Heikki Nikula, bass clarinet Mikko Ivars, cello Anna-Leena Haikola, violin Emma Vahala, violin Tuula Riisalo, viola Riikka Rantanen, mezzo-soprano Eija Raisanen, soprano Tanja Kauppinen-Savijoki, soprano Avanti Chamber Orchestra members Tuomas Hannikainen, Dmitri Slobodeniouk, Pietari Inkinen
01 Nosztalgiaim (2006-2007) 12:12 02 Sade avaa (Rain opens) (1998-1999) 15:41 Heikki Nikula, bass clarinet; Avanti!, Tuomas Hannikainen
03 Culla d’aria, for string quartet (2004) 9:30 Anna-Leena Haikola, violin; Emma Vähälä, violin; Mikko Ivars, cello; Tuula Riisalo, viola Avanti members, Dmitri Slobodeniouk
Naisen rakkautta ja elamaa (Love and Life of a Woman) (2003): 04 A typical morning 4:24 05 Between them the moon 3:46 06 You are near me at all times 1:41 07 I waited with bated breath 2:15 08 Never make friends 0:31 09 Exactly, confined to ticking 2:35 10 Morning after morning 3:39 11 The ovum is silent 2:09 12 My basic instinct runs right up from my toes 0:51 13 Boogie mama 4:29 14 There is nevertheless a place on the map 4:16 15 I’m sorry I haven’t replied before 2:54 Eija Räisänen, soprano; Tanja Kauppinen-Savijoki, soprano; Riikka Rantanen, mezzo-soprano Avanti members, Pietari Inkinen
Total Time: 71:16
In
an article for the Finnish Music Information Center, Lotta Wennäkoski
(born 1970) writes, "I've always been fascinated by the scarcely
audible...so that in trying to establish a sound of my very own, I've
had the feeling I'll find it on the borders of silence." The statement
is apt; many of the chamber and vocal pieces represented here are
characterized by exceptionally sparse textures and sounds that are
barely audible. Culla d'aria (Cradle of Air), for string quartet,
consists of wispy ethereal gestures, with silence given a key role. Sade
avaa (Rain opens), for bass clarinet and chamber ensemble, achieves a
similar effect, using extended instrumental techniques calculated to
produce the most delicate sounds and textures. Nosztalgiaim, despite a
title that implies a wistful sadness, is actually the most active work
here. Using several Hungarian folk songs as its basis, it's playful and
whimsical, but in a very quiet and dynamically subdued manner.
Wennäkoski's song cycle, Naisen rakkautta ja elämää (Love and Life of a
Woman), which references Schumann's Frauenliebe und -leben thematically
but not musically, is a more dynamically robust work, due to the nature
of bel canto singing, which calls attention to itself and is not noted
for tiny, pointillist vocal production. The cycle, which uses three
women's voices and chamber ensemble, is more conventionally in the
tradition of contemporary atonal art song. Finnish ensemble Avanti! and
various soloists negotiate Wennäkoski's demands with precision and
careful attention to the atmospheric quality of her work. Alba's sound
is present and clear so that the smallest details of orchestration are
easily audible.
~Stephen Eddins
Lotta Wennäkoski (born
1970 in Helsinki, Finland) studied first violin, music theory and
Hungarian folk music in the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest. She
then studied music theory and composition at the Sibelius Academy and
got her diploma in 2000. Her main composition teachers have been Eero
Hämeenniemi, Kaija Saariaho and Paavo Heininen. 1998-99 Wennäkoski
studied in the Netherlands with Louis Andriessen.
Wennäkoski's
debut concert took place in Musica Nova Helsinki festival in 1999. Her
orchestral piece Sakara was commissioned by Esa-Pekka Salonen, who also
conducted the premier with Helsinki Philharmonia in 2003. Lotta
Wennäkoski!s stage work N! (Woman's love and life) was premiered in
Helsinki Festival also in 2003, and was nominated for the Nordic Council
Music Prize the next year. More recent performances of Wennäkoski!s
works include the premier of the flute concerto Soie by Petri Alanko and
the Finnish RSO in 2009 - chosen to the list of recommended works at
the international rostrum of composers in 2012 - and the mini opera
Lelele at the Musica Nova Helsinki 2011, performed by soprano Pia Freund
and Plus Ensemble. The monodrama has later been performed in Maerzmusik
(Berlin), Warsaw Autumn and Huddersfield festivals.
Lotta
Wennäkoski was the artistic co-ordinator of Tampere Biennale festival
2008-2010. A CD of her chamber music, Culla d'aria, was published 2008
by Alba Records. She was the composer-in-residence of Tapiola
Sinfonietta during the season 2010-11. The orchestra then performed
several of Wennäkoski's works and commissioned the song cycle Le miroir
courbe, which was premiered in May 2011. In March 2012 Wennäkoski was
one of the featured composers at the 17th Other Minds Festival in San
Francisco.
In October 2012, the Finnish RSO and Dima Slobodeniouk
premiered the 86-minute long Amor omnia - live music for silent film
(Amor omnia, Finland 1922). The latest orcestral piece, Jong, brings a
very special soloist in front of the chamber orchestra - a juggler. The
premier was played by the Lapland Chamber Orchestra in May 2013.
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