Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14027979
Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. Score. 111
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP00695.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14027979).
ISBN
9788759888780.
English.
Corona -
The Solar Trilogy No. 3
for Orchestra was
composed by Poul Ruders
in 1995. Programme note:
CORONA makes the final
part of the
SOLAR-TRILOGY, a huge
symphonic triptych about
the life and behavior of
the Sun. The first'panel'
GONG depicts the birth,
life and final collapse
of our nearest star, the
second ZENITH describes
in its ultra-slow tempo
the patient rise of the
Sun toward midday
ferocity and its
subsequent setting.
CORONA, then, is a
symphonic 'portrait' of
the phenomenally hot
whispy brim encircling
and radiating from the
Sun, a sizzling halo of
electrons and photons
visible only during a
total eclipse. Formally
CORONA follows the
process of such
totalityin progress:the
gradual eclipsing by the
Moon - total darkness
with thefierce, sparkling
outer corona - the
gradual 'rebirth' of the
light toward the full
gl.ory and warmth of the
Sun.Besides the obvious
astronomical narrative of
the SOLAR-TRILOGY there's
a metaphysical angle too,
underlying each of the
three compositions: GONG,
in spite of its apparent
energy, may be the most
pessimistic of them all,
epitomizing the death and
ultimate annihilation of
the prime source of Life
itself. ZENITH is a
hommage to human
aspiration and spiritual
endurance and CORONA ends
with Hope and Glory after
a journey from depression
throughtotal despair.
Super-structurally, the
zenith of ZENITH makes
the zenith of the entire
trilogy, i.e. when the E-
flat of the unisone horns
in ZENITH is heard, we
are exactly halfway
through the collected
work. Poul Ruders.
