• General information
  • Composition date : 1995
    
  • Duration : 13 mn
  • Editor : Chester Music
  • Commande: GRAME

• Type
  • Musique soliste (sauf voix) [Contrebasse]

Creation information

• Date : 23 March 1995
  Location :

  Lyon, festival Musiques en Scène

  
  Performers :

  Jean Pierre Robert.

Information about electronic
Electronic device : dispositif électronique non spécifié

Folia was written soon after Graal théâtre, which is evident in the virtuoso string writing. Saariaho originally intended to rescore her cello work Petals for double bass, but she abandoned this idea because of technical differences between the instruments. In writing Folia, Saariaho worked from the same basic approach as in Petals, but Folia already belongs to a new period, with textures closely related to those of Graal théâtre.

Risto Nieminen, 1996, Finnish Music Information Centre (FIMIC)