Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012)

Scorribanda Sinfonica (2001)

Sopra la tomba di una Maratona, pour grand orchestre

  • Informations générales
    • Date de composition : 2001
    • Durée : 15 mn
    • Éditeur : Chester Music, Londres, nº CH63228
    • Commande : Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Effectif détaillé
  • 4 flûtes (aussi 2 flûtes piccolos, 1 flûte alto), 2 hautbois, 1 cor anglais, 1 hautbois d'amour, 4 clarinettes (aussi 2 clarinettes basses), 4 bassons (aussi 1 contrebasson), 4 cors, 3 trompettes, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, 5 percussionnistes, 1 timbales, 1 harpe, 1 célesta, 1 piano, 14 violons, 12 violons II, 10 altos, 8 violoncelles, 6 contrebasses

Information sur la création

  • Date : 29 juin 2001
    Lieu :

    Hambourg


    Interprètes :

    Orchestre Symphonique de la NDR

Observations

Cd : NDR Symphony Orchestra, direction, Peter Ruzicka, Wergo: WER 6657 2

Note de programme

    <p>This piece, written during the winter months of 2000-2001, consists of one movement, <em>Allegro con fuoco</em>, in which an old score is revisited, raided and ravished by its composer. The earlier music had been written in the mid-fifties for a stage work <em>Maratona di Danza</em> and for its maker, the director Luchino Visconti.</p><p>Elements from the older piece reappear on and off like shadows under the surface of new ones, like more or less vague memories, images of young people suffering pain and despair in their struggle for survival in a barbaric, pitiless modern world.</p><p>My new composition is a kind of concerto for very large symphony orchestra, an étude on constant and often rapid musical changes of mood and colours, built on a variety of rhythmic figures, incessantly and brutally pushing the music ahead. Sometimes, it is as though voices are weeping, sometimes crying out loud with pain, with anxiety, under the cold hearted pressure of an overwhelming violence.</p><p><em>Hans Werner Henze.</em></p>