Violoncello - Level 5
SKU: BA.BA11071
Composed by Matthias
Pintscher. In a folder.
Part II of the cycle
Profiles of Light.
Performance score.
Composed 2015. 4 pages.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA11071_00. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA11071).
ISBN
9790006562015. 42 x 29.7
cm inches.
“Now
II” is the second part
of a triptych of chamber
pieces entitled
“Profiles of Light”.
The first part is written
for solo piano (Now I, BA
11073), the second for
unaccompanied cello. The
two instruments are then
combined in the
concluding third part,
Uriel (BA
11013).
All three
pieces were inspired by
the Abstract
Expressionist paintings
of the American artist
Barnett Newman. Newman's
work has had a formative
impact on Matthias
Pintscher's artistic
philosophy: what does it
mean to reduce things to
essentials while seeking
maximum immediacy of
expression? Several of
Newman's paintings have a
radiant light of uncommon
intensity, yet resembling
a dark illumination. The
same sort of thing is
found in the late works
of Franz Schubert, where
a comparable profundity
and retrospective
yearning likewise shine
through the surface of
even the brightest
tonalities.
This
is a piece about
resonances, about the
inward and outward givens
of existence, about life
itself: 'I find the cello
a highly suitable
instrument for depicting
such existential
conditions'.
