Kirkasvetinen

Finnish composer Osmo Tapio Räihälä titled his contribution to the collaborative composition Trout Pond Kirkasvetinen. This is the name of a lake in north-eastern Finland renowned for its clear water. The composer describes this water as “light water”, where trout live and where he himself once caught a trout. His piece is a poetic soundscape of this lake, which, unlike the other four composers of the Trout cycle, does not use motifs from Schubert's Trout Quintet, but harmonically refers to this work in many places, as the composer says.

In 2017, pianist Silke Avenhaus collaborated with five contemporary composers – Johannes X. Schachtner (Germany), Ferran Cruixent (Spain), Gerald Resch (Austria), Osmo Tapio Räihälä (Finland) and Dejan Lazic (Croatia) to engage with Franz Schubert's famous Trout Quintet. The piano quintet, consisting of individual contributions from these composers, premiered on 2 October 2018. It is a stroke of luck that the new variations complement each other in the most exciting way – without any mutual consultation – from the ironic Trout Waltz to the setting of Schubert's initials F. SCH. in the virtuoso Bartókian 5/8 frenzy to the cyber variation, which, with the addition of a mobile app to be played, is reminiscent of the sound of a warped LP, the palette of these short new compositions, which can be performed following the Trout Quintet or as a stand-alone work, is wide-ranging.