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Ziggurat
for bass clarinet and marimba
clarinette basse et marimba
26,00 €
TTC, hors expédition
Détails du produit
Description
The relationship between music and architecture has for many decades been source of fascination for Gilbert. A range of works reflecting on the complexity and beauty of French medieval cathedrals has been the result. Ziggurat is in many ways a companion to these, albeit the type of structure it was engendered by existed a good millennium earlier. It was commissioned in 1993 by the Duo Contemporain, Henri Bok, bass clarinet and Miguel Bernat, percussion, as a sequal to a number of pieces he’d written for them reflecting on the architecture of Chartes Cathedral.
Although it was a type of memorial to a leading figure in Babylonian (or indeed Amerindian) society, the ziggurat celebrates life. Starting at ground level, a pathway or staircase winds up around the conical structure, decorated with passages of visual narrative and imagery. Gilbert’s duo for bass clarinet and marimba engages in a similar journey, continuously climbing but also episodic, with passages of wild virtuoso music separated by steady, directed motion. Colour-changes involving bass clarinet multiphonics and rich chordal writing for the marimba feature strongly.
In its original form the work lasted over eighteen minutes; in 2014 Gilbert decided to extensively rewrite the work in order to sharpen its musical focus. It is now just over two thirds of its original length, with resultant heightened intensity.
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Titre:
Ziggurat
for bass clarinet and marimba
Edition:
Partition et parties
Maison d'édition:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1994
Durée:
21 ′
Première:
19 mai 1995 · Murcia (E)
Duo Contemporain
Duo Contemporain
Travaux commandés :
commissioned by Duo Contemporain
Série:
Détails techniques
Numéro du produit:
ED 13021
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-2656-7
UPC:
841886024717
Poid:
0,24 kg
Pages :
60
Format:
23.1cm x 30.3cm
Obligatoire :
Reliure à dos agrafé
représentations
Ziggurat
13 novembre 1999 |
St Andrews (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord)
Ziggurat
13 novembre 1999 |
Glasgow (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Glasgow University
Ziggurat
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 1995
22 novembre 1995 |
Huddersfield (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Laurence Batley Theatre — Première nationale
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