general information

composition date
1995-1996
duration
18 min
editor
Schirmer
Dedicatee
Pierre Boulez ; Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Commission
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

type

Instrumental ensemble music (Instrumental ensemble music)

detailed formation

3 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (also contrabass clarinet), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets [en do], piccolo trumpet [en la] (also trumpet [en do]), 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, 4 percussions, harp, piano, strings

information about the creation

date
December 12, 1996
interpreters
Chicago Symphony Orchestra ; Pierre Boulez, direction.

Part titles

I. …words of the sea…
II. …the ever-hooded, tragic-gestured sea…
III. …beyond the genius of the sea…
IV. …mountainous atmospheres of sky and sea… (Homage to Debussy)


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