general information

composition date
1998
duration
7 min
Commission
Spoleto USA Chamber Music Festival

type

Chamber music (Other sextets and larger ensembles with diverse instrumentation)

detailed formation

violin, second violin, viola, cello, piano, bell

information about the creation

date
1998

États-Unis, Charleston, Spoleto Chamber Music Festival

interpreters

le quatuor à cordes St Lawrence, Steven Prutsman : piano, Osvaldo Golijov et Todd Palmer : cloches.

Program note

This piece is a constellation of symbols, the most obviuos ones being the bells (whose meaning changes according to when and how we hear them), imaginary bells (the piano), and a XIIIth century motet, whose meaning is probably different for us now than it was for people then.



Osvaldo Golijov, site internet du compositeur.

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