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- Jouni Kaipainen
Vento, Op. 58 (1998)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Programme Note
Commissioned with support from the Madetoja Foundation
To Mika Väyrynen
Vento is what happens when a top performer of his instrument asks an unruly middle-aged composer to write something and “make it difficult if you like”. You easily find yourself inventing all sorts of things you have never had a chance to do before. A sort of explosive virtuosity is one of the salient characteristics of Vento, but this piece is no circus number. Admittedly it tickles me when accordion professionals ask on hearing Vento how many players there are in fact. But my real aim was to produce a work of dramatic force, coherent mood and psychological impact that in some respects operates in areas where no one has been before.
To the Finn, the word “vento” suggests something strange, but to the Italian it means the wind, and the listener probably finds it easy to understand what the wind has to do with this piece. Vento was composed in 1998 and is dedicated to Mika Värynen, without whom it could not exist.
- Jouni Kaipainen, 2002.
English translation by Susan Sinisalo.
To Mika Väyrynen
Vento is what happens when a top performer of his instrument asks an unruly middle-aged composer to write something and “make it difficult if you like”. You easily find yourself inventing all sorts of things you have never had a chance to do before. A sort of explosive virtuosity is one of the salient characteristics of Vento, but this piece is no circus number. Admittedly it tickles me when accordion professionals ask on hearing Vento how many players there are in fact. But my real aim was to produce a work of dramatic force, coherent mood and psychological impact that in some respects operates in areas where no one has been before.
To the Finn, the word “vento” suggests something strange, but to the Italian it means the wind, and the listener probably finds it easy to understand what the wind has to do with this piece. Vento was composed in 1998 and is dedicated to Mika Värynen, without whom it could not exist.
- Jouni Kaipainen, 2002.
English translation by Susan Sinisalo.