Classical Composer: | Gubaidulina, Sofia |
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Work: | Silenzio* |
Year Composed: | 1991 |
Instrumentation: | acc, vn, vc |
Publisher: | Boosey & Hawkes |
Duration: | 00:20:00 |
Period: | Contemporary |
Work Category: | Chamber Music |
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Silenzio, a set of five pieces for bayan, violin and cello, is dedicated to Elsbeth Moser, whose personality served as inspiration for the work. She gave the first performance in Hanover in 1991 with the violinist Kathrin Rabus and cellist Christoph Marks. The greater part of the work, the composer explains, is to be played pianissimo. She did not have the intention of expressing silence or creating such an impression. Silence is for her the foundation from which something grows. Exact rhythmic proportions are made which appear in all five miniatures in different ways, at times hidden, at times in the form of proportions of note length. In the last miniature the hidden and the open are brought together in a synthesis: in the course of the whole movement we hear significantly formulated rhythmic sequences in the bayan part (quasi variations on a rhythm). It is the same rhythm that can also be heard in the relationship to each other of the formal sections, 7- 2- 5.
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