Aulis Sallinen: String Quartet No. 3, “Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik’s Funeral March”
from Shadows' Dream, Nordic Music (FBRCD-22) by Trondheim Soloists
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AULIS SALLINEN became a professional composer almost by accident, writing his first mature work in protest at events in Germany in 1962 while travelling there on the administrative staff of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The composer would carry the same simple, plain-speaking convictions into everything he wrote, releasing himself from the orchestra’s employment in 1970 to composer full time, the year after writing his String Quartet No 3.
Sallinen was commissioned to write the quartet for performance in Swedish schools. In fulfilling that commission he turned to a device that has long been central to his technique and has its roots in the communal improvisation of folk music: variation form. Sallinen delivered a simple one-movement piece that would ‘vary certain
basic material and bring it to life in numerous different circumstances, continually causing it to be reborn.’
Despite the quartet’s title, that ‘basic material’ – the quartet’s tune – started out as a wedding march. When it was rediscovered in the 1950s, its tempo was slowed and it became known in Finland as ‘Peltoniemi Hintrik’s Funeral March’.
Across five variations, with two intermezzos and a final coda, Sallinen filters the mournful tune through a kaleidoscope of colours and shapes. But he keeps his audience oriented by frequently reprising the tune in its original, recognizable form. True to his word: ‘I wanted to compose a work of continuous variations in which the theme would never disappear…like a distant horizon.’
Sallinen was commissioned to write the quartet for performance in Swedish schools. In fulfilling that commission he turned to a device that has long been central to his technique and has its roots in the communal improvisation of folk music: variation form. Sallinen delivered a simple one-movement piece that would ‘vary certain
basic material and bring it to life in numerous different circumstances, continually causing it to be reborn.’
Despite the quartet’s title, that ‘basic material’ – the quartet’s tune – started out as a wedding march. When it was rediscovered in the 1950s, its tempo was slowed and it became known in Finland as ‘Peltoniemi Hintrik’s Funeral March’.
Across five variations, with two intermezzos and a final coda, Sallinen filters the mournful tune through a kaleidoscope of colours and shapes. But he keeps his audience oriented by frequently reprising the tune in its original, recognizable form. True to his word: ‘I wanted to compose a work of continuous variations in which the theme would never disappear…like a distant horizon.’
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from Shadows' Dream, Nordic Music (FBRCD-22),
released May 31, 2021
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