The Seasons Remembered (2024)

I composed The Seasons Remembered for the XIII International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition and it is an offshoot of the opening movement Young Love (Spring-winter) of my Clarinet Quintet The Seasons of Love.

The seasons were different in the north, where I lived as a child: the bitterly cold mid-winter weeks and the cool summers are deeply engraved on my body memory, and the new seasons brought by climate change feel unfamiliar. The Seasons Remembered is music of flowing emotions and memories, of flashbacks to the past and of torrents cascading into an unknown future.

- Outi Tarkiainen