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- Outi Tarkiainen
Day Night Day (2024)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Commissioner exclusivity applies
- 3(afl:pic).3(ca).3(bcl.).3(cbsn)/4.3.3(btbn).1/timp.3perc.hp.cel/str.
- 6 min 30 s
- 28th January 2026, Helsinki Music Centre, Helsinki, Finland
- 29th January 2026, Helsinki Music Centre, Helsinki, Finland
Programme Note
Day Night Day is an orchestral work about the northern light and ice that every winter invade the land but that reflect the early spring light in brilliant spectra. The work incorporates references to two Sámi melodies: a yoik by Láve Nigá Risten from the Teno region of Northern Finnish Lapland heralded by muted trumpets towards the beginning of the work, and a variation of the old South Sámi lullaby Sjamma, sjamma hummed at the end by the woodwinds.
The musical themes spring from my forthcoming opera Day of Night jointly commissioned by Aalto Musiktheater Essen and Finnish National Opera and Ballet. The libretto of this opera based on the novel Halla Helle by the Sámi writer Niillas Holmberg is by Aleksi Barrière.
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- Outi Tarkiainen - World Premiere with the Berliner Philharmoniker
- 13th February 2025
- The Berlin Philharmonic will premiere Outi Tarkiainen's 'Day Night Day'