Cinq fontaines de la Fortune - Juha T. Koskinen
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

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Composer's note:
My duo for guitar and harpsichord entitled Cinq fontaines de la Fortune (2014) is part of a series of compositions based on the water element. The title comes from Guillaume de Machaut's book Le Voir Dit (ca. 1364). The turning point in the "real story" of the novel is a dream that awakens the narrator's self-consciousness: he has acted as moody towards his lover as Fortuna, the ancient goddess of fate herself. After waking up from the dream, Machaut liberates the portrait of his lover from inside of several enveloping trunks. He hears from a friend a story on how in ancient Rome people predicted the future from the undertakings of Fortuna. In those times, there were five fountains in the centre of the city where five virgins attempted, with their sweet singing, to alleviate the goddess' furor. Fortuna's support or objection towards an initiative could be interpreted from which one of the five fountains would start running (powered up by the singing) and how the water would behave.

Juha T. Koskinen 30.5.2014


Juha T. Koskinen (born in 1972) has graduated in composition from the Sibelius-Academy in Helsinki. He continued his studies at the Conservatory of Lyon and at IRCAM in Paris. His composition teachers have been Kalevi Aho, Anders Eliasson, Paavo Heininen, Kaija Saariaho and Philippe Manoury. Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) has commissioned four works for orchestra from Koskinen, the most important ones are Hehkuva graniitti (Incandescent Granite) (2001) and Symphony No. 1 (2006). In 2004 his composition Sogni di Dante (Dante's Dreams) received the Takefu International Composition Award in Japan. Koskinen's fourth chamber opera Madame de Sade (after Yukio Mishima's play) was premiered in Helsinki in 2010. Bashô Fragments for bass clarinet, cello and electronics had its premiere at Tokyo Opera City in June 2010 with the musicians from the Ensemble Nomad. Koskinen has collaborated with the Finnish light artist and designer Jukka Korpihete, Shadow of Yugao was a sound installation for Korpihete's exhibition at the Ozone Gallery, Tokyo in October 2011. The Noh performer Ryoko Aoki commissioned a new piece for her and the flutist Ayako Okubo, they premiered Wayfaring Moon at the Shibaura House, Tokyo on 19 January 2012. Next premieres will be: Chant of Lusia for mezzo-soprano and string quartet at Oulunsalo Soi Festival on 2 August 2014 (Virpi Räisänen and Quatuor Danel), String Quartet No. 2 at Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in July 2015.

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