Zen
pour soprano et un quatuor de flûte, clarinette en sib, violon et violoncelle
Osmo Tapio Räihälä
Zen
Description
On a June Saturday in 2011, I happened to wander into the buddhist pagoda in Bois de Vincennes in Paris. Having no religious senses at all, I never get the sprituality of cathedrals, shrines or suchlike - but I admire their architecture, beauty and history.
On an indoor wall of that pagoda, I spotted two poems by zen buddhist philosophers, and their nature immediately awoke my inspiration, they were music in my mind right away.
Instead of just typical piano, I decided to accompany the soprano with a quartet of flute, clarinet, violin and cello, to make the music more colourful. In the end "Zen" is perhaps not a work for soprano and a quartet, but rather a quintet where the singer is just one of the instruments.
The work was finished on October the 17th in 2011.
Instrumentation
sopr, fl, cl, vln, vlc
Category
Chamber Works
Movements
1. La vie de l'homme 2. Si tu ne trouves pas la vérité
