Classical Composer: | Lutosławski, Witold |
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Work: | Grave (version for cello and string orchestra) |
Year Composed: | 1981 |
Instrumentation: | Vc, Str. (5 St) |
Publisher: | Sikorski |
Duration: | 00:05:51 |
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Work Category: | Orchestral |
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Composed in memory of the Polish musicologist and critic Stefan Jarocinski (1912-80), Grave is subtitled Metamorphoses for cello and piano. First given in Warsaw during April 1981, the piece was arranged for thirteen solo strings the following year, a version first heard at the Festival Estival in Paris that August. Jarocinski was renowned for his knowledge of Debussy's music, Pellas et Malisande above all, and Lutoslawski opens his tribute with a quotation from the initial forest scene of that opera. Cello and strings pursue a moodily intense dialogue, opening out in robust rhythmic exchanges before a sustained cadenza passage ushers in the spectral, ambivalent close.
Writer: Richard Whitehouse
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