Ville Matvejeff, the conductor and pianist on this album, is a versatile musician who has achieved success as a conductor, composer, and pianist, performing internationally.
Compositional Technique
Sallinen rarely uses extended harmonies, preferring fourths and fifths with dissonant spices, and often employs bitonality through subtle hints rather than layered chords.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Aulis Sallinen, the composer, aims for a simplified yet expressively sonorous style that avoids structural trickery, with humanity at its core.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Sallinen's Chamber Music series, while practical and technically accessible for various ensembles, was primarily dictated by aesthetic considerations rather than external circumstances.
Compositional Technique
Sallinen builds his music from tiny cells, finding growth potential in a nucleus of only a few notes or a scrap of rhythm, ensuring the listener can follow the variations.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in Hannikaissali, Jyväskylä, Finland, across three separate sessions between February 2014 and February 2015.
Composition History
The Chamber Music series by Sallinen, though highly coherent, consists of independent compositions, with the composer initially having no intention of creating a series.
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