Žibuoklė Martinaitytė's Sielunmaisema (2019) for cello and string orchestra contemplates the cycle of the year in its movements, which are named Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn.

Sielunmaisema translated from Finnish means a “soul-landscape, a particular place that a person carries deep in the heart and returns to often in memory.” It can be described as a landscape that “hits you in the center of your chest, the one you that immediately feels like home.” The composer tells: "Soul-landscape...