Piano (Piano Solo)
SKU: HL.48025042
Piano. Composed by
Iris ter Schiphorst. BH
Piano. Classical.
Softcover. 20 pages.
Duration 900 seconds.
Bote & Bock #M202521595.
Published by Bote & Bock
(HL.48025042).
ISBN
9781705154212. UPC:
196288021711.
The
work, which the composer
counts among her
favourite pieces, was
inspired by the life and
work of Marguerite Duras.
In her play of the same
name, a Flemish woman
goes to Saigon at the
beginning of the 20th
century, marries a civil
servant and has two
children.After her
husband's death, she also
works as a piano player
at the local 'Eden
Cinema'. Eden Cinema,
which is 'to be played
like a traditional piano
piece from the Romantic
period' according to the
composer, sounds poetic,
but also cool, funny and
extremely modern. Motif
repetitions and ostinatos
play a major role, as
they do with Duras. In
addition, quotations
appear, literal ones from
Beethoven's Hammerklavier
Sonata as well as vague
echoes of dance rhythms
and commonplace music as
used in silent film
theatres. Thepreparation
of the piano strings -
metal parts on the high
ones, rubber pieces on
the low ones - creates a
tonal patina and the
impression of the past -
'in connection with Duras
also recognizable as
traumas sedimented in the
subconscious, whose
indistinct traces
obsessively push to the
surface' (Eckhard
Weber).
