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COMPOSER'S NOTE The solo flute piece Solo III consists of two contrasting movements. the slow first movement was a commission from the Cruselk Week Music Festival in Uusikaupunki Finland for the Scandinavian Flute Competition held there in August 1990. The first movement was a complusory piece at the competition. This movement is like a single endless melody and it tests the sound quality of the flautist and his/her ability to create long melodic phrases and a long continuous musical form. The whole movement is based on a quarter-tone scale. After finishing the first movement in January 1990 I decided to write a second fast movement for Solo III.A year later in January 1991 I composed the technically very demanding and virtuoso second movement Presto. The Presto flows in a very fast perpetual motion in semiquavers. The movement begins mysteriously in the lower register of the flute and gradually the music moves towards the upper register. At the same time the texture becomes more complex with hidden polyphony. The second movement culminates in a wild prestissimo. The complete Solo III was premiered by the Finnish flautist Tapio Jalas in Helsinki on April 14 1991.
SKU: FG.55011-591-0
ISBN 9790550115910.
Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) Flute Concerto (2002) was initially inspired by the magnificent, enigmatic poetry of the Swede Tomas Transtromer, but the vocal ideas nevertheless adapted themselves to the flute. There is lots of singing, lyrical music at the beginning and end of this three-movement work; the second movement, by contrast, is quick and brilliant. The finale follows from the second movement without a break, constituting an epilogue that draws all the threads together and brings the events to a close. This is one of the most beautiful works Aho has ever written. The virtuosic solo part is written for flute and alto flute, and Kari Vehmanen has created the piano reduction in 2019. The orchestral study score (ISMN 9790550096349) is available for sale and the orchestral material for hire.
SKU: HL.48022888
UPC: 888680893514. 8.25x11.75x0.06 inches.
SKU: HL.48022890
8.25x11.75x0.045 inches.
SKU: HL.48022891
8.25x11.75x0.05 inches.
