Basic information
| Composer |
Vuori, Harri |
| Duration |
12 min. |
| Year of composition |
2001 |
| First performance (year) |
2001 |
| First performance (venue) |
Crusell Week, Uusikaupunki, Finland |
| First performance (performers) |
Finalists of the flute competition, Crusell Week, Uusikaupunki, Finland |
| 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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| Viola | 1 | | |
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| Cello | 1 | | |
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| Flute |
1 |
C
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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 |
Twilight Songsters has been performed many times in Finnish National Opera with a choreography (modern dance) created by Jani Talo and his group.
In Twilight Songsters the flute plays a significant role in constructing the melodies, form and acoustics. It cunningly influences the behaviour of the other instruments, as it were, by providing motifs, attacks and textures that taken up buy the others. The only melody in this virtually monothematic work acquires numerous variations and timbres, and sometimes the flute even plays in canon with itself, in wildly playful figures. The title, Twilight Songsters, is a reflection of the spring evening when the quartet was nearing completion as the migrating birds flocked twittering back again.
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| Additional notes |
Commissioned by the Crusell Week flute competition
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