3 Movements for orchestra
- Year of composition: 2022
- Duration: 20′
- Commissioned by the Orchèstre Symphonique de Montréal, the San Diego Symphony, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Tonkünstler-Orchester and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
- WP: 14.09.2022, Montréal (Canada), Rafael Payare (conductor), Orchèstre Symphonique de Montréal
- Orchestral cast: 3(2.bcl, 3.pic).3(3.ca).3(3.bcl).2.cbsn-4.3.3.1-timp(tub. bell, cym, Chinese cym, lightweight paper, waterphone, flexatone, thundersheet)3perc(glsp, xyl, vib, 2mar, tub bells, steel pans, 3 cym, clash cym, tam-tam, cowbell, s.d., caisse claire, tenor drum, frame drum, b.d., 6 woodblock, 3 lightweight paper, sandblocks, waterphone, thundersheet, wooden board)-hp.pno(cel)-str(14.12.10.8.6, d.b.4-6 5-string instruments)
Background
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Programme note
Every piece of music takes time into calculation. There are millions of ways to do that, but it always has to be done. Here, the treatment of time has been an underlying concept: Form is established through tensions evoked by «changing» time (seemingly prolonging or compressing it) rather than motivic or even harmonic development. The treatment of rhythm has also been determined by sensing what a listener is really able to hear, to digest in a tiny or large amount of time. Thinking about time intensely has provoked a form which is open, as a piece of music can only ever be a cutout of ever-flowing time.
Thomas Larcher