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The Wine-dark Sea IV - Matthew Whittall
Rody van Gemert - Guitar (Uwe Florath, Helsinki 2010, after Antonio de Torres ’La Perla’ SE 30, Almería 1882)
Assi Karttunen - Harpsichord (Henk van Schevikhoven 1997)
Live at the Church of the Holy Cross, Rauma/Finland
Rauma Festivo 2014
Available now on CD: https://pilfink.fi/en/tuote/ancient-g...
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Composer's note:
The Mediterranean looms large in my family history and genealogy. Learning the mythology of Greece and Turkey
as a child through books and bedtime stories, I came to associate this body of water with mystery, no small amount
of adventure and, despite my strong physical and psychological attachment to the North, a distant, muted sense of
ultimate home. As I draw primarily on landscape for creative impetus, during a trip to the region in 2007, I
expected to find in the lands of my ancestors a potent new source of ideas.
Although the vistas were arresting and beautiful, they did not resonate in me on a deep level. What I - a northerner
by more than birth and temperament, it would seem - was allowed to carry away from that trip were merely fond
recollections of a foreign place, profoundly "other" from my experience: the iconic, archetypal "Mother Sea" and
its numberless shades of blue, the quality of the sunlight, the smell of flowers and herbs in the air. These are the
impressions informing The wine-dark sea, a dreamlike postcard written after the fact, through a haze of memory.
I could add to this a feeling of blissful honeymoon detachment.

Matthew Whittall
Canadian-born composer Matthew Whittall (b. 1975) began his studies in Montreal. He earned degrees in performance and composition from Vanier College, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and SUNY Stony Brook, before settling in Finland in 2001. His output covers a wide variety of media, particularly orchestral, vocal, choral, chamber and solo instrumental works, but also features forays into electronics. His works have been commissioned and performed by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Finnish Radio Symphony and the Helsinki Chamber Choir, among others, and in festivals and radio broadcasts across Europe, North America and Japan. Whittall’s music is marked by an attempt to fuse its various disparate influences – Old and New World, Western and non-Western, sacred and secular, classical, folk and popular – into a single, variegated expressive language, and by a use of extramusical imagery ranging from natural phenomena to poetry and landscape art. Matthew Whittall currently lives in Helsinki. In addition to a busy schedule as a freelance composer, arranger, program annotator and internet blogger, he teaches music analysis, history and orchestration at the Sibelius Academy, where in 2013 he completed his doctoral work in composition, writing on the idea of nature in Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Whittall's works are available through the Finnish Music Information Center (FIMIC), Sulasol and the Uusinta Publishing Company, and are recorded on the Alba, Pilfink, Sony Classical and Centrediscs labels.