ABCD 490 – Aphelium Journeys

Duration: 76:31

23,00 

SKU: ABCD 490 Categories: , ,

Description

Aphelium Journeys is a bold, poetic voyage through musical universe with three contemporary chamber works — not only across physical or cosmic distances, but through emotional terrain and artistic transformation. Each of the three works reflects a phase of ripening: from elemental contrasts (Blue, Black & Sun), through introspective depth (Valleys of Soliloquy), to passionate culmination (Blazing Flames).

Written for two string quartets and a saxophone quintet, the trilogy explores extremes of color, gesture, and inner resonance. The kinetic oriented music of Esa Pietilä is bold yet intimate — at times volatile, at times silent — always reaching toward a voice refined by distance.

Just as the aphelium is the furthest point in a body’s orbit from the sun, these works circle around moments of emotional clarity: found not at the center, but at the edge — where light is faint, and vision is sharp.

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Tracks:

  • Pietilä, Esa (b. 1964)

ICONS OF BLUE, BLACK & SUN, String Quartet No. 2 (2022) (Fennica Gehrman)
1I. Blue6:40FIABA2500192
2II. Black10:14FIABA2500193
3III. Sun5:19FIABA2500194
  • Pietilä, Esa (b. 1964)

VALLEYS OF SOLILOQUY, String Quartet No. 3 (2025) (Fennica Gehrman)
4I. Murmurs in Shadow12:17FIABA2500195
5II. Folded Light4:37FIABA2500196
6III. The Distant Voice10:03FIABA2500197
  • Pietilä, Esa (b. 1964)

7BLAZING FLAMES, for Tenor Saxophone and String Quartet (2018) (Fennica Gehrman)27:21FIABA2500198