Marraskuun ruusu

by Niilo Tarnanen

Tuokio katoavaisuuden kauneutta

A rose of November - a moment of beauty in evanescence

for a modified sinfonietta

Description

Marraskuun ruusu (2018) is a gift of precarious years in my life: worry of a newborn, career anxiety, fear of all and fear of nothing. In the end, everything went fine (or at least that’s what I think now) but when I wrote the first sketches of this elegy in March 2016, everything felt up in the air.
While sketching, I came across a Karelian folk chorale melody that soothed me in many levels. Its intriguing opening made its way into an idée fixe of this gloomy tone sculpture for a tweaked Sinfonietta, and remnants of rest of it sparkle all over this piece.
The instrumentation is inspired by the compact and transparent orchestration of early Classicism, where I’ve inserted a pair of saxophones and replaced the continuo harpsichord with a guitar.

Instrumentation

ob, ehn, ssax, asax, 2bsn, 2hn, guit, str (min 54321)

Category

Works for Orchestra or Large Ensemble

Premiere

28.4.2018 Sonore hall, Helsinki Music Centre, Sibelius Academy Conducting Class Orchestra, Jonne Grans, guitar. Emilia Hoving, conductor

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Archive number

MF36292

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