Sons desta Noite: “Desert Music” de Steve Reich (I andamento)

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Desert Music de Steve Reich (I andamento)
“Begin, my friend
for you cannot,
you may be sure,
take your song,
which drives all things out of mind,
with you to the other world”.
(Theocritus: Idyl I do livro “Desert Music and other Poems” de William Carlos William)

Sons desta Noite: “Sirenengesang” de Bent Sorensen

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“SIRENENGESANG was composed in the spring 1994 and was commissioned by the AVANTI! Chamber Orchestra. The work was written with support from NOMUS.
The music is not a romantic reflection on presumed siren songs. The title expresses an impalpable conception which manifests itself in dense quartertone-distorted melodies and manic, almost frozen tone-repetitions. Sometimes the music becomes static screams, sometimes there is room for small naive fragments of melody.
By the end of the piece a fragment from the ‘Angel-Duet’ of my THE ECHOING GARDEN emerges.
SIRENENGESANG is dedicated to Per Nørgård.” – Bent Sørensen

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Sons desta Noite: “Fantasia on a Ground” de John Harbison

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“Harbison’s quartet is a substantial single-movement work in the composer’s most accessible style, but none the less sophisticated for that; its hymn-like textures and phrasing and freely-flowing melodic polyphony make it instantly communicative and approachable, an ideal introduction to the immaculate craftsmanship typical of Harbison’s chamber music.” (Records International)

Sons desta Noite: “Elegia” de Dimitri Schostakovich

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Ainda dentro das elegias para cordas e de compositores russos… Shostakovich. Uma Elegia para quarteto de cordas, retirado da sua fantástica – e antes censurada – ópera “Senhora Macbeth de Mentsk”.

Sons desta Noite: “Elegia” de Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky

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Dedicado a Ivan Samarin, um reputado actor e professor de Drama, Tchaikovsky escreveu uma obra para cordas de seu nome “Uma Saudação de Agradecimento”, para os 50 anos de carreira do actor. Aquando da morte desta personalidade, tornou-se nesta bela “Elegia”.