Violin, Piano
SKU:
BA.BA11086
Composed
by Thomas Daniel Schlee.
Stapled. Urauffuhrung
24.10.2017, Wien.
Performance score, Part
(1). Opus 82. 20/9 pages.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA11086_00. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA11086).
ISBN
9790006564446. 32.5 x
25.5 cm inches.
A
suite whose movements
always deliver something
other than what they seem
to promise. But
throughout, the two
instruments and
respectively their
players act like two
people in very specific
situations:
I.:
The opening movement is
reserved for the piano;
the initially earnest,
solitary cantilena
intensifies creating
expectation.
Suddenly
II.: the
violin sounds. Its moving
figures replace the now
silent piano, also
soloistically.
III.
„Passacaglia“
: The title is taken
literally – the
two instruments/persons
encounter each other in
the street. Two musical
characters who meet at a
specific point, recognize
each other, but move on
again, each one by
itself.
IV.
„Rondo“: The
two of them dance
together. Before me, I
saw people dancing the
Sardana – a round
dance – in front
of the cathedral of
Barcelona. Four themes in
different time signatures
circle ceaselessly
between the two
instruments.
V.
„Fuga“: At
last, regardless, panic
flight – again the
title is taken literally
... Human, only too human
…
Thomas Arne
