Organ - advanced to
difficult
SKU:
HL.49033297
Organ. Composed by
Jean Guillou. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Composed 1974.
Op. 28. 40 pages.
Duration 16'. Schott
Music #ED 9799. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49033297).
ISBN
9790001137751. UPC:
884088070496.
9.0x12.0x0.158
inches.
Though the
work bearing this title
is a portrait of
childhood, it is a
childhood quite different
from the purely
gameplaying and dreamlike
childhood that is
customarily represented.
The childhood described
here is carrying the
seed, in all its purity,
of all positive and
negative qualities to be
found the fully-grown
men: a childhood both
angelic and diabolical,
and indeed very close to
Henry James' The Turn of
the Screw which was the
direct inspiration for
this monodrama.Its growth
follows the innumerable
sudden changes, turns and
contrasts of the
unsophisticated spirit.
There is hardly any
development at all, as
each idea gives birth to
the next or rejects the
previons one, being
object to every impulse,
every tempest, every
flux, every fear and
delight. After a
dreamlike introduction,
in which two simple
melodies stand out, comes
a sudden awakening,
Allegro, stamped all over
with lavish and forever
regenerating dynamism. A
sudden halt leads a kind
of outburst from the most
simple folklore is
singing, in regular,
repeated notes. Again the
question mark leads us to
another melody,
Tranquillo, of a sweet
tempo, but brilliantly
decorated with
counter-point, its
cursive traits leading
this time to a kind of
roguish march
(Vigoroso).Yet soon there
emerges a melancholic
chant, Largo, in the
Cromorne's timbre, and
then, in the highest
register of the Trumpet
there reappears like a
metamorphosed memory, the
theme of the second
movement. Passing other
episodes, we come to
Tempo giusto, insistent
and glorious, interrupted
by other passionate
figures, cut off by
unsettling silent moments
and taken up again in
always accelerating
volleys.
