Lotta Wennäkoski: Mellan natt och regn for guitar and string quartet

The lyrical title of Lotta Wennäkoski’s Mellan natt och regn (Swedish for “Between Night and Rain”) derives from a poem by Tua Forsström (b. 1947), and the music has both rainy and nocturnal moods. The first ones are attracted by different ways of playing – for example, by tapping the strings of the instruments with one’s fingertips. A small rain stick (a percussion instrument) and a bowl of peas are also conjuring up rainy sounds. Buy now