Patrik Kleemola plays two movements Preludio and Paesaggio from Kai Nieminen's guitar work Quadri Morandi (2014). The entire work is included with all four movements on Kleemola's CD Through Green Glass (Finnish Guitar Music): http://www.pilfink.fi/app/shop/one/-/... Sheet music is published by Fennica Gehrman: http://kauppakv.fi/sis/FennicaGehrman...

Musicologist Kimmo Korhonen writes about the work: "The piece Quadri Morandi (Morandi’s pictures) is written in four movements. It has at its centre the painter Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), who is known as a master of still lifes and landscapes painted in a plain manner and in subdued colours. Their atmosphere typically reflects a calm spirit. This is the third guitar piece that Nieminen has written for Kleemola. It is easy to find a counterpart for the encaptivating realm of Morandi’s art in Nieminen’s clear and pure expression. The titles and expression markings also include several references to Morandi. For example, in the opening movement Prelude the words “la Natura morta” (still life) appear as an additional note on the chord sequence following the freely flowing opening section. At the end of the movement one can hear a rhythmic motif coloured with flageolets that repeats the syllables of the painter’s name: “Gior-gio Moran-di”. The tranquilly breathing third movement Paesaggio (landscape) creates an illusion of landscape by imitating the echo of monastery bells (“come campane del monastero”) and at the same time refers to “il monaco" (the monk), the name by which Morandi was often called. www.facebook.com/KleemolaGuitar

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