related works

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Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Clarinet with multimedia
Scoring: cl-b soundrack

Duo concertante : voor 2 piano's / Henk van der Vliet

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: 2pf

Five nocturnes : for piano / Daniel Ruyneman

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Trois impromptus : pour piano, 1994 / Carlos Micháns

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

composition

Vanishing point : for piano / Ville Raasakka

Author(s):
Raasakka, Ville (Composer)
Description:
Vanishing Point was commissioned by Risto-Matti Marin for a celebratory concert on the 200th birthday of Wagner. The starting point for the work is a short piano piece by Wagner called Ankunft bei den schwarzen Schwänen – Albumblatt in As-Dur für Klavier (WWV 95).
I wanted to put the original work into a distance. The piece, supposed to be a sonic model, began to go further and further while composing. The only thing remaining from the original is a single pitch: A point in the horizon.
The vanishing point is a term from the visual arts, representing a way of drawing perspective where all the lines in a painting point towards one point. I wanted to create my own landscape, where Wagner is only a focal point in the farthest distance, at the point of vanishing.
Ville Raasakka