Joye

Outi Tarkiainens Joye for Sinfonietta (2017).Programme Note by the composer:Joye is a miniature or an orchestral fanfare, essentially brightthroughout and aphoristically pithy. The title alludes to theancient French word meaning "bliss" and "Fortune", and myintention was to load the piece with all the elation andrecklessness that flash through a person in a moment of intensehappiness. The sombre, sturdy chord pillars at the beginningsurge into a landscape in which first the clarinets, then the oboesand finally the trumpets lead the music to mighty ferment and aclarity that suffuses all.The work was commissioned by the Pori Sinfonietta, Finland.Premiere by Pori Sinfonietta and Janne Nisonen (cond.) on December 6, 2017, Promenade Hall, Pori, Finland.