Description
The title of this work, Under the Apple Tree, is a metaphor that relates the composer’s compositional technique, knowledge, and skills to the fruit of an apple tree. This tree must be cared for and nurtured before it can bear fine and delicious apples. The same can be said of the composer’s endeavors. The idea of comparison between fruit and compositions also brings us back to the double meaning of fruit. As Mozart wrote on the front page of his six Haydn string quartets “il frutto di una longa e laboriosa fatica” (the fruits of a long and laborious work), we remember that fruit, here, represents the products and results or even the rewards that await us after we have planted the seeds of hard work. In this piece, each movement is named after a particular breed of apples. Each sort of apple has its unique features, which in this case, have been transformed into musical parameters. One of the compositional devices or parameters used was the association of specific intervals to each movement. In every section, there are two main intervals that are applied in various ways to shape the music.
Tomi Räisänen, 2003
Instrumentation
4rec
Category
Chamber Works
Premiere
fp: Eero Saunamäki • Anna Saunamäki • Riikka Holopainen • Reetta Varjonen :: Helsinki (Finland), August 26, 2004
Movements
I. Miron, II. Valkea kuulas, III. Nalif, IV. Jaspi, V. Oranie
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