informations générales

date de composition
1995
date de révision
1996
durée
12 min
éditeur
University of York Music Press
Dédicace
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble pour leur vingtième anniversaire

genre

Musique instrumentale d'ensemble (Ensemble instrumental mixte de 5 à 9 instruments)

effectif détaillé

flûte (aussi flûte piccolo), clarinette (aussi clarinette en la, clarinette en mib, clarinette basse), piano, violon, violoncelle, percussionniste

informations sur la création

date
Janvier 1996

États-Unis, Pennsylvanie, Pittsburgh

interprètes

The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, direction : David Stock.


date
Août 1996

Allemagne, Darmstadt

interprètes

l'ensemble Musikfabrik.

observations

Enregistrements : ensemble Psappha, direction : Paul MacLinden pour la BBC, 1996 ; London Sinfonietta, direction : Diego Mason, RTVE,  live, 2004.

Note de programme

It was written in 1995 as a tribute to the Spanish painter and was originated through a music theatre work based on a selection of her pictures. Each one of the five sections or short pieces that shape the work, have a subtitle that refers to specific Varo’s paintings. This is also reflected in the way the musical material is applied in each one of these five sections.

The first one is called Ciencia Inútil (Useless Science) and corresponds to the painting: Alquimia. It has the role of an introduction to the work and it also makes reference to creativity, which cannot disappear and survives by transformation processes in our materialistic and globalise society. Hilos del Destino, (Threads of Fate) is the title of the second painting/section that ends with the strings at their extreme registers, to begin the opening of the third piece: Premonición. In Arquitectura Vegetal, different voices weave a complex texture in which some voices come to the foreground before disappearing again into the tightly knit texture, where different pulses are superimposed. The piano solo is the transition to the last piece that corresponds to the last painting Remedios Varo finished before she died in 1963 in Mexico City: Naturaleza Muerta Resucitando (Still Life reviving).


Hilda Paredes.

œuvres similaires


Cette fiche œuvre a valeur encyclopédique, elle ne reflète pas les collections de la médiathèque de l'Ircam. Veuillez vous référer aux fiches "partitions".


Vous constatez une erreur ?

IRCAM

1, place Igor-Stravinsky
75004 Paris
+33 1 44 78 48 43

heures d'ouverture

Du lundi au vendredi de 9h30 à 19h
Fermé le samedi et le dimanche

accès en transports

Hôtel de Ville, Rambuteau, Châtelet, Les Halles

Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique

Copyright © 2022 Ircam. All rights reserved.