Chamber music

Woodland Fanfares (2021)

clarinet, violoncello and piano
2'

Woodland Fanfares is a miniature that wrests the listener into the weightless fluctuation of dark, surging waves. The energy of the mounting swell finally condenses in a collective song and subsides as it yields to the light: like a tender glade in the wilderness, a tranquil odyssey in life or a warm breast on which to lay one’s head. The work was commissioned by the City of Kuhmo.

Score

Premiere: July 18, 2022
Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Kuhmo, Finland
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Lentua Hall
Lauri Sallinen, clarinet, Trey Lee, violoncello and Matilda Kärkkäinen, piano

March 27, 2024
London Sinfonietta, cond. Patrick Bailey
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, The United Kingdom