Autumn Gardens / Syksyn Puutarhat
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SKU: FG.55009-402-4
Composed by Einojuhani Rautavaara. Score. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55009-402-4).ISBN 979-0-55009-402-4.
According to Rautavaara "The name of the work is a quotation from the libretto of my opera The House of the Sun: ". . .like a butterfly in a dark autumn garden. . .". The motif to which these words are sung is the theme for the variations in the first movement. Their texture gradually grows and becomes denser. Following on without a break is a slow, poetic movement of even rhythms and dynamics. The quick, lively finale begins giocoso e leggiero. But autumn is also a time of colour, and of death. At the end the music thus turns into a festive dance con grandezza. Maybe it bears the echo of a sarabande to the dying splendour of summer - or as T.S. Eliot put it: "late roses filled with early snow". Autumn Gardens was commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and premiered at the London Proms in July 1999.