Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14014802
Composed
by Hans Werner Henze.
Music Sales America. 20th
Century. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
2002. 80 pages. Chester
Music #CH63228. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14014802).
ISBN
9780711992764.
9.75x13.75x0.285
inches.
Composer's
Notes: This piece,
written during the winter
months of 2000-2001,
consists of one movement,
Allegro con fuoco, in
which an old score is
revisited, raided and
ravished by its composer.
The earlier music had
been written in the
mid-fifties for a stage
work Maratona di Danza
and for its maker, the
director Luchino
Visconti. Elements from
the older piece reappear
on and off like shadows
under the surface of new
ones, like more or less
vague memories, images of
young people suffering
pain and despair in their
struggle for survival in
a barbaric, pitiless
modern world. My new
composition is a kind of
concerto for very large
symphony orchestra, an
etude on constant and
often rapid musical
changes of mood and
colours, built on a
variety of rhythmic
figures, incessantly and
brutally pushing the
music ahead. Sometimes,
it is as though voices
are weeping, sometimes
crying out loud with
pain, with anxiety, under
the cold hearted pressure
of an overwhelming
violence. Hans Werner
Henze Commissioned on the
occasion of the 50th
anniversary of das neue
werk, Hamburg. Premiered
on 29th June 2001.
Duration 15 minutes.
