Score
SKU:
HL.50603530
For
Orchestra Score.
Composed by Britta
Byströ and m. Score.
Softcover. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH33249.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.50603530).
UPC:
840126931136.
A
work for orchestra
commissioned by
Gothenburg Symphony
Orchestra. The composer
writes I have borrowed
the title 'Voyages
extraordinaires' from the
writer Jules Verne and
his famous novel series
depicting fantastic or in
reality impossible
journeys. The title
seemed fitting as my work
is intended as
fantastical musical
voyages on which the
listener encounters new
worlds of sound through
recurring orchestral
transformations. I see
the work somewhat as a
tribute to how art has
the abilities to
transcend the limits of
life. Some years ago I
composed a horn trio,
'Diagonal Musik' (2017),
inspired by the Swedish
artist Olle Baertling.
Baertling's paintings
consist of large, bright
triangular shapes, and
although the lines
gradually approach one
another, the intersecting
point is often placed
outside the frame.
Consequently, the
spectator will try to
complete the angle in
their own head. In my
horn trio, I wanted to
transfer this to music:
the lines that gradually
approach each other but
rarely meet, except
perhaps in the listener's
head. In 'Voyage
Extraordinaires' I have
tried to develop these
techniques even further,
this time for orchestral
forces, and combine them
with the magical
transformations, an
important structural
element of the piece. The
fantastic journeys also
refer to travels in our
own imagination: what we
believe and picture in
our mind. The sudden
musical transformations
that occur are also
reminiscent of dream
logic and the dreamscape
itself. Here it is
possible to wander in and
out through worlds in a
way that feels consistent
within the framework of
the dream..
