Koskinen: Fuga Indiana

Regular price $15.99
Label
Alpha
Release Date
June 7, 2024
Format
Added to Cart! View cart or continue shopping.


    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Arto Koskinen
    • PERFORMER
      Joonas Ahonen
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 07, 2024
    • UPC
      3701624510421
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1042
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

Arto Koskinen is a Finnish composer, pianist and harpsichordist who has devoted his musical life to establishing a dialogue between the Asian, European and Afro-American traditions. In the 1970s, he developed a passion for jazz, then went on to study Indian vocal music at a music and dance school in New Delhi. He also immersed himself in the study of polyphonic techniques from the Baroque era and sought to make them compatible with the melodic principles of oriental music. The result is this 'Indian fugue', composed between 1987 and 2000, whose main sources are North Indian classical music, traditional western polyphony and Afro-American improvisations. His compatriot Joonas Ahonen, a polymorphous pianist who has already recorded Le Monde selon George Antheil with Patricia Kopatchinskaja (ALPHA797), is a passionate advocate of Koskinen's music. This monograph at last spotlights the music of a composer with a highly original voice.