The Porazzi Fragment
composer: Gavin Bryars
musical motifs: Richard Wagner
for 21 solo strings
on a theme by Richard Wagner
Dedication: to my wife, Anya
Premiere: December 1, 1999 Canterbury, Marlowe Theatre (UK) · Conductor: Paul Manley · Primavera Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra instrumentation: 11vn.4va.4vc.2db
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 15' 0''
Year of composition: 1999
Edition: performance material
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Commissioned by the Primavera Orchestra, and designed for the orchestra’s string formation, this short work for strings alone originates in an enigmatic, and un-published, 13 bar musical theme by Richard Wagner which appears to have been started during the period when he was composing the second act of Tristan und Isolde and finished shortly after the completion of Parsifal in Palermo, Piazza dei Porazzi.
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CBC Radio Orchestra; Holly Cole, voice; Gwen Hoebig, solo violin; Gavin Bryars, solo double bass; Owen Underhill, conductor
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