Violin, piano SKU: FG.55011-501-9
Composed by Paavo Heininen. Fennica Gehrman #55011-501-9. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-501-9). ISBN 9790550115019.
Even though I was and remain a proponent of absolute music, the things that we see and experience inevitably colour and energise our thought processes. The grand old man of Finnish Modernism Paavo Heininen (b. 1938) turned his impressions of Boston into violin sonatas op. 134 (2016). All the three sonatas - Boston Sonata, Boston Variations and Boston Ballade - were premiered in one concert in Helsinki celebrating the composer's 80th birthday in May 2018 by Kaija Saarikettu (violin) and Juhani Lagerspetz (piano).