Poul Ruders: Nightshade: Chamber Ensemble: Score
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Full Score-Ruders 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 usedcontrabass 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.
Composer/Artist : Poul Ruders
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