Chamber Ensemble
SKU:
HL.14018818
Composed
by Nicola LeFanu. Music
Sales America. Post-1900.
Book [Softcover]. Music
Sales #NOV890193.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14018818).
ISBN
9780853609469.
This
piece lasts about 12
minutes, and it plays
continuously, although it
is made up of 16 small
movements. Throughout,
the four string players
form a group: sometimes
the clarinet is caught up
with them, but more often
it is like a person
pursuing an independent
train of thought:
sometimes talking to
itself, sometimes
conversational, sometimes
singing The starting
point for my Quintet was
Italo Calvino's Invisible
Cities: like the book, my
piece is composed from
many small contrasting
ideas that are constantly
transforming, some coming
to the fore as others
recede. This quintet is
dedicated to Hugh
Sargent, who commissioned
it.