Description

The character of my first wind quintet was clear to me already when starting to compose it in August 2021. Italo Calvino's ideas about lightness in art in his book Six Memos for the Next Millenium had made me think of my musical expression in a new way: I wanted my Quintet to sound light and embody airlike gestures. As my compositional process advanced something in the music felt like friction and heat. The closer I got to finishing the composition the more it made me think of a fluttering flame sculpted by air currents whirling around it.

- Olli Moilanen 2021

Instrumentation

fl, ob, cl, bsn, hn

Category

Chamber Works

Premiere

Jyväskylä Sinfonia musicians: Aapo Järvinen, flute, Nahoko Kinoshita, oboe, Gil Shaked-Agababa, clarinet, Jonathan Nikkinen, horn, Emil Fuchs, bassoon, March 19, 2022, Jyväskylä, Finland

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Archive number

MF34718

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