A short introduction in which Einojuhani Rautavaara and Leif Segerstam talk about the composition precedes the performance. Don't missit here: • Einojuhani Rautavaara ...
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On the threshold of his seventies, Rautavaara felt that he, too, was approaching the mysterious last frontier and returned to the ending of Poe’s work, which he describes as “a mystical, almost metaphysical fantasy”. He explains that, in his composition, “the fascinating closing pages of the novel from the whole. I could not use Poe’s text verbatim for this purpose.. .it had to be reworked somewhat. It became, in the mouths of the chorus, the core and framework of a longer narrative, around and in between which the orchestra weaves its own rich, colorful texture. Because I already knew the performers at the time I composed the work, I was spurred to write a number of instrumental solos. The orchestra’s role is to tell the tale in a way that is beyond the scope of words -but perhaps expresses it better than words are able to.”
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