Basic information
| Composer |
Tuomela, Tapio |
| Duration |
15 min. |
| Year of composition |
2004 |
| First performance (year) |
2004 |
| First performance (venue) |
Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Kuhmo, Finland |
| First performance (performers) |
Mikael Helasvuo, flute, Asko Heiskanen, clarinet, Jukka Pohjola, violin, Tomas Djupsjöbacka, cello, Tuija Hakkila, piano |
| Submitter |
Uusinta Chamber Ensemble |
| Publisher |
Fennica Gehrman |
| Conductor |
No |
| Soloist(s) |
, |
Instruments
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Musicians |
1st player |
2nd player |
| Violin | 1 | | |
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| Cello | 1 | | |
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| Flute |
1 |
C
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| Clarinet |
1 |
B-flat
Bass
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Musicians |
Instruments |
| Keyboard |
1 |
Piano
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| Other instruments and playing techniques |
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Equipment |
| Sound electronics |
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| Visuals |
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Notes
| Programme notes |
Tapio Tuomela started his career with neo-classical music, but turned towards more structured modernism after his studies in the 1980’s. Since then he has found a new fountain in Finnish, Carelian and Samic folklore, which he has used especially in his vocal works and in his highly successful opera The Mothers and the Daughters.
The Quintet no 2 "Pierrot" is based mostly on two opposing athmospheres: an extrovertive, vivid and capricious one (like Pierrot in Comedia dell'arte) and another, slower and introvertive one (corresponding the Harlequin). During the second half of the piece the two characters are brought nearer to one another, until the material melts into a fast stretta towards the end of the piece. Pierrot was premièred in Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in July 2004.
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