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…
Downloadable and printable PDF edition. Vestige for violin and piano is based on the aria for soprano and instrumental ensemble Minä odotin Lotta Wennäkoski composed in 2003. This aria is part of the cycle Naisen rakkautta ja elämää (Love and Life of a Woman) designed for performance on stage together with the song cycle of…
Lotta Wennäkoski’s Verdigris for orchestra has become a new concert hit, and can already boast 16 performances around the world this year alone. Another orchestral favourite by her is Flounce, performed at the BBC Proms and soon a popular curtain-raiser after its premiere. Since the beginning of this year, Verdigris has been played in Australia,…
What are the various ways to touch upon the strings of violin and harp, if the musicians are equipped – in addition to fingertips and the bow – with a sheet of paper? Lotta Wennäkoski’s good-humoured Tocca (2019 / 2020) for violin and harp strolls through the journey, listening to the colours created by various…
Balai for guitar Balai for solo guitar (2009) was inspired by the most common technique on the world’s most common instrument – strumming. The Ballet interlude momentarily interrupts the rhythmic continuum with its decadent dance steps. “Balai” is French for a lute, a broom, or a dust mop. Balayettes for two guitars Lotta Wennäkoski’s Balayettes…
“Whizzing, growling and rattling – you can produce all kinds of sounds with the harp, not just the fairy-tale shimmer and glissandos that you first think of.” Lotta Wennäkoski composed Sigla for harp and orchestra (2021-2022) in close collaboration with the harpist Sivan Magen, to whom the concerto is dedicated. The title of the concerto,…
Lotta Wennäkoski’s Pige (2021-2022) for string quartet was commissioned to be paired with the Death and the Maiden quartet by Franz Schubert (“pige” is Danish for girl). The work has three movements, and the first movement can also be performed separately as a prologue to Schubert’s quartet. Buy now
