Full Score Chamber
Ensemble (Score)
SKU:
HL.14028052
For
Chamber Ensemble.
Composed by Poul Ruders.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Score. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #KP00203.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14028052).
ISBN
9788759870853.
Rude
rs writes: NIGHTSHADE is
an instrumental
dark-room, a grave-yard
of low-pitched,
tight-knitted, crawling
chords sliced asunder by
the cold extremely high
positioned movements of
the oboe and violin in
particular: tones
sustained to
near-immobility and then
scared into startling
velocity, like geckoes on
a Southern garden wall.
Shades in the night are
pale and gloomy
phenomenons to behold;
treacherous beauties in
the mighty realm of
invisibility and
blackness. Belladonna
(beautiful lady) is the
morbid christening of
that fearsome variety of
flora: the deadly
nightshade. The piece is,
on one hand, a study in
extreme sonorities; the
infrequently used
contrabass clarinet is
being employed along with
the contra-bassoon,
forming the ultra-low
foundation of the score
and the bottom-register
of the French horn and
the trombone is set
against the serene
clarity of high violin
and oboe. On the other
hand, the piece is a
tone-poem of sorts, on
the various associations
as they form within the
mind of the individual
listener when confronted
with the very word
NIGHTSHADE. Personally, I
come to think of pale
moonlight, tombstones,
the compelling as well as
frightening spell of a
dark forest. A Study in
black the piece has been
called.
