Piano - Grade 3-4
SKU:
ET.PNO81
Composed by
Caroline Charriere.
Contemporary. Editions
BIM #PNO81. Published by
Editions BIM (ET.PNO81).
ISBN
9790207003256.
Lââ
‚¬â„¢enfance en éclats
2001 [Childhood
Shattered]
As its
title suggests, Childhood
Shattered is program
music. A simple and
graceful tune,
symbolizing childhood, is
abruptly interrupted by a
horrific, dissonant
chord. The tune returns ;
but the echo of the
chord, still lingering in
the background, tells us
that the memory of the
traumatic event persists.
Life has darkened.
Nothing is as it was
before. The initial
melody wanders into keys
ever stranger and more
distant, ultimately
arriving at a new theme,
obsessive, with grating
seconds and thrusting
accents. This shattered
childhood and its
episodes of aimlessness,
will it give birth to new
certainties?
The
piece is an exercise in
contrasting detached
notes with tied
notes.
Commissioned
by the Association Jeune
musique. Required work at
the International Piano
Competition Freiburg -
Jeune Musique, 2002.
Toccata (2004)
This piece by Caroline
Charrière issues from
the historical lineage of
the toccata,
traditionally an exercise
of dexterity
characterized by repeated
musical motifs.
The
introduction is
constructed of subtly
displaced upper-register
chords in the right hand
that alternate with two
lower notes in the left
hand, creating an almost
meditative preamble. In
the rapid section of the
piece, the performer
playfully exploits the
keyboard's full breadth
in the course of spirited
dialogues between notes
high and low.
Commissioned by the
Association Jeune
Musique. Required work in
Category IV at the
International Piano
Competition Freiburg -
Jeune musique, 2004.
Irène
Minder-Jeanneret.