{"product_id":"761366-1","title":"Alankotapiola Sinf - Concerto For Flutetowards The Sea [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSallinen; Takemitsu; PendereckiMusic for flute and orchestra   Aulis Sallinen is among the best known contemporary Finnish composers. Born   in Salmi in 1933, he studied composition with Arre Merikanto and Joonas Kokkonen   at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and subsequently joined the teaching staff   there, after serving for ten years as executive director of the Finnish Radio   Symphony Orchestra. An award from the Finnish government in 1976 enabled him   thereafter to devote his full attention to composition. He is a member of the   Swedish Royal Academy of Music and in 1983 was joint recipient, with Krzysztof   Penderecki, of the Sibelius Prize of the Wihuri Foundation. Sallinen's compositions   include five operas, ballets and a number of orchestral works, symphonies, concertos   and sets of variations. His chamber music includes a number of string quartets. Sallinen's Concerto for flute and orchestra, Opus 70, commissioned by   the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation, was completed in 1995 and dedicated to   the well-known flautist Patrick Gallois. The concerto, given the title Harlekiini,   is scored for four string quartets, six brass-players and a number of wind and   percussion instruments, the last placed mid-stage to give a stereophonic division   between strings and brass. It is in four connected sections and opens with evocative   orchestral sonorities, before the entry of the solo instrument into what are   firmly tonal textures. To the orchestral chords the flute adds fragments of   melody, based on recurrent figures and motifs, passed from soloist to orchestra.   The Adagio section that follows harsh accompanying tone-clusters, offers   an element of relative tranquillity, the flute solo now accompanied by dense   orchestral chords and by a percussion counterpoint. The third section is introduced   by the soloist, after the interweaving of the flute and solo violin line. Related   material, sometimes angular in outline and often fragmentary in form, is passed   between the participants, varying in mood from the meditative to the energetic,   before a gong initiates the fourth and final section. Here a prolonged flute   solo, suggesting a cadenza, leads to the return of the orchestra in all its   varied instrumental colourings and to a conclusion that seems to leave much   unsaid. The Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu provides a remarkable conjunction of East   and West. He was largely self-taught, apart from some private study with Yosuji   Kiyose, under whose auspices his first music was performed. In 1951 he joined   Joji Yuasa and Kuniharu Akiyama in the Experimental Workshop (Jikken Kobo),   an organization that aimed to bring together all the arts and offered a varied   musical repertoire of contemporary composers. In the following decade he achieved   wide recognition as a composer himself, influenced at first by contemporary   French composers and then, from 1961, by John Cage. Over the years he won esteem,   signalled by ma\u003cp\u003eConcerto for flute and Orchestra op. 70 'Harlekiini': Allegro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcerto for flute and Orchestra op. 70 'Harlekiini': Adagio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcerto for flute and Orchestra op. 70 'Harlekiini': Allegro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcerto for flute and Orchestra op. 70 'Harlekiini': Adagio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward the Sea II for alto flute, harp, and strings: The Night\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward the Sea II for alto flute, harp, and strings: Moby Dick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward the Sea II for alto flute, harp, and strings: Cape Cod\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcerto for flute and orchestra da camera: Andante\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcerto for flute and orchestra da camera: Andante\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcerto for flute and orchestra da camera: Allegro con brio\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55148287689089,"sku":"761366","price":14.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/51VLexiVNuL._SL1500_b64788f3-af14-487d-bd49-31563a3ee88b.jpg?v=1767820502","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/761366-1","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}