![]() ![]() The third movement provides a strong climax with themes from the first movement, and a short French horn solo. The second movement starts with a C drone in the strings, and ends with more tone clusters that lead into the beginning of the next movement. The piano and orchestra bounce themes off of each other, before a large climax, where the pianist is instructed to slam their arm on the keyboard to simulate a 3-octave wide cluster chord. D G - D A A (G) D G - D A A (G) intro D G - D A A (G) D G - D A A intro Bm Bm Em7 Em7 Everywhere I look the sun is shining Bm Bm A A But it's always raining here inside Bm7 Bm7 G G I can see you really had a hold on me D D A A It's a mean old love, with a flame that never dies (G) D G - D A A Won't you tell me why- yi- yi- yiy (G) D G - D A. ![]() The orchestra joins abruptly after, imitating the piano intro. For the first thirteen bars, there are octave clusters in the right hand, outlining a melody in E phrygian, and harmonizing with a D major/minor arpeggio in the left hand. The first movement, Con grandezza, begins with a piano solo. It was during this time that Rautavaara had become disenchanted with the serialist and twelve-tone techniques of his previous works, and abandoned them in favor of a more idiosyncratic, romantic, and avant-garde style. The piece contains many innovative uses of polytonality, cluster chords and extended uses of form. Photo of Einojuhani Rautavaara in the 1950sĮinojuhani Rautavaara wrote his Piano Concerto No. ![]()
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