Very fast and rhythmically capricious. A Russian conductor in rehearsals was flabbergasted: “And this is supposed to be Finnish music? Sounds like music from the Balkans.” Rautavaara´s reply: “That´s what we are like on Saturday nights.” Finns, however, calm down after a visit to the sauna, so wait for the cadenza. EJR composed the last bars in Manhattan. When he saw the lights from his studio window he saw the downtown skyscrapers, “thousand lights switching on and off incessantly day and night”, he heard, he said, “Fifth´s Avenue´s constantly changing, unending current of sound. He knew that the violin solo would have to live its last moments passionately, persistently piercing the orchestral texture right to the end.”
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 21:07:06 +0000
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