René Kuwan: Shape of a Novel (LIVE)

30.10.2021 at Temppeliaukio Church Helsinki Symphonic Brass Sauli Saarinen, conductor HOME PAGE: https://helsinkisymphonicb.wixsite.co... FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... INSTAGRAM:   / helsinkisymphonicbrass   Shape of a Novel “… The child says: Why don't these beautiful flowers also sing like the birds. They sing! I reply. But we can't hear them ... " “ ... The cemetery trees are beginning to become immortal for eternity, "sempervirens", thanks to the dead, they nourish them with their bodies ... ", so it says in a novel by August Strindberg, which was a source of inspiration for the main part of the musical material. The piece's focus lays more on the narrative elements of the music, than compositional complexity. The course of the inspiring novel should be represented in its shape through the piece's dramaturgy, without being able to retell the novel itself.” René Kuwan