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Young Boy Holding a Skull (detail) (1893) by Magnus Enckell (1870-1925)
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki / Central Art Archives, Helsinki / Matti Janas
Track(s) taken from CDA67534

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Klingende Buchstaben (‘Sounding Letters’, 1988) was written as an affectionate fortieth birthday tribute to the cellist Alexander Ivashkin, it is based on letters from the name ‘Alexander’: A–E–A–D–E. More flamboyantly gestural than the Madrigal, Klingende Buchstaben nevertheless shares its mournful, soliloquizing tone, ending ambiguously not on the fourth or fifth suggested by the A–E–A–D–E monogram but hovering around the interval of a tritone.

from notes by Pauline Fairclough © 2006

Recording details: August 2005
Wigmore Hall, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by Simon Eadon
Release date: June 2006
Total duration: 4 minutes 17 seconds

Klingende Buchstaben
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1988
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