Meeting

1982 (6 minutes)

Composed for: Works for 2 - 6 Players

First performed: Seppo Salovaara, clarinet, Jukka Tiensuu, harpsichord, Helsinki, 14 December 1982

Instrumentation: clarinet + harpsichord

Kimmo Korhonen: In Meeting for clarinet and harpsichord, Salonen has progressed from the meditative Expressionism of Berg and Schönberg to a freer and more vivacious Modernism. On the other hand, the rapid and at times almost hysterically convulsive figures bear a distant relationship to Minimalism. Meeting is emphatically a duo work, focusing on the relationship between the two instruments, the problem of the 'meeting' mentioned in the title.

Published by: Chester Music Limited

Copyright: Kimmo Korhonen, 1999 (translated by Jaakko M?ntyj?rvi)

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