Olli Leppäniemi, clarinet

Kamus Quartet:
Jukka Untamala, violin
Terhi Paldanius, violin
Jussi Tuhkanen, viola
Petja Kainulainen, cello

Osvaldo Golijov: Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
Aki Yli-Salomäki: Clarinet Quintet ‘Nightfall’

Some 800 years ago, a French rabbi named Isaac the Blind dictated a manuscript according to which all things and events in the universe can be represented as combinations of letters in the Hebrew alphabet.
Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind is an epic tracing the history of the Jewish people. The music echoes the sounds of three languages spoken over the nearly 6,000 years of Jewish history: Aramaic, Hebrew and Yiddish. “I never had that in mind when writing the music; I only realised the resemblance when the work was completed,” says composer Osvaldo Golijov.

Tapiola Sinfonietta Kevät 2023