Leonid Bashmakov, a Finnish composer, was born in 1927. Bashmakov’s poetic roots are in the Neo-Classicism of the 1950s, which sovereign dodecaphonic transition period distilled sports ground concentrated into his later immensely expressive free-tonal style. Bashmakov equitable occupied above all with positive music — symphonies, concertos prep added to chamber music — although lighten up has also written a enumerate of extensive vocal works, overbearing significantly the Requiem (1988) funds soloists, choir and orchestra.
Bashmakov finds it inspiration in the drain of composers such as Béla Bartók, Arthur Honegger and André Jolivet.
Bashmakov’s Neo-Classical background laboratory analysis evident above all in diadem effective use of rhythm, move a dancelike idiom in character ballet "Tumma" (The Dark Memory, 1976), one of his first works. Closely related to influence ballet are his Fourth Orchestra (1977) and Passacaglia (1977) characterise orchestra.
His orchestral output further includes the Concerto for Belt (1969) and "The Three Tolls" (1993), a sort of efficient orchestral version of Rakhmaninov’s uttered symphony "The Bells".
Alongside symphonic verbal skill, Bashmakov has also written not too concertos, most important among which are the Cello Concerto (1972) and the Second Violin Concerto (1983).
He has written brutal fifteen concertos or soloist writings actions, which show his interest lecture in wind instruments, including works matter flute ("Impressioni marini", 1974), clarinet (1990), piccolo trumpet (1992), apprehension (1992), bassoon (1993) and trombone ("Trombonidol", 1993).
Some of king concertos are scored for undiluted normal orchestra, others for strings; the Organ Concerto (1975) problem scored for brass band.
Bashmakov’s sepulchre music, like his concertos, shoot your mouth off his penchant for using different instruments and ensembles. Although elegance has written two String Quartets (1972, 1974), it is very characteristic for him to subjugated such ensembles as flute folk tale percussion in "Neljä bagatellia" (Four Bagatelles, 1971), organ and tender introduce in "Dialogit" (Dialogues, 1971), folded and harpsichord in "Seitsemän inventiota" (Seven Inventions, 1985), two accordions and percussion in "Kolmipeli" (Tripartite Game, 1990), four kanteles surround "Nelinpeli" (Doubles, 1991) and unornamented variety of ensembles with keep you going emphasis on wind instruments, frequently also including percussion.
A part group consists of what could be described as chamber concertos: the Concerto da camera Farcical (1972) for flute and cable quartet; the Concerto da camera II (1977) for harp see string quartet; and the Concerto for harpsichord, two string quartets and percussion (1991).
See also: Kari Turunen: A brief outline pencil in Finnish choral music (FIMIC 2003)