2. Music in Theatre – Theatre in Music
Thu, June 11th at 11
The venue will be announced later
Composert Markus Fagerudd and director Laura Jäntti discuss the relationship of music and theatre. Hosted by Seppo Kimanen.
Music: Markus Fagerudd (*1961): Arco Naturale (1997, 1999)
Markus Fagerudd: InstruMental III (2003)
Petteri Iivonen, violin
Marko Ylönen, cello
The string quartet Arco naturale is Fagerudd’s souvenir from Italy, directly influenced by the island of Capri. The baths and palaces of Tiberius set the composer’s imagination in motion. Thus, Fagerudd has described the work, completed at the end of 1997, as follows: “A ceramic shard is found in the earth, then another, then a third. Soon there is a glued-together fragment of a pot, singing with its cracked voice snippets of chorales and small cantilenas, stories of human everyday life, then and now.”
The single-movement, ten-minute quartet is indeed like a vessel assembled from decorated pot fragments: at the beginning, the music unfolds in long lines, coloured by fragmentary chorales. In the middle, the piece accelerates into denser ornamentation. At the end, it returns to the timeless, more pulse-less expression of the opening, before quietly fading into the soil of Capri, waiting to be discovered by archaeologists.
© Osmo Tapio Räihälä, 10/1998 (translated)
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