"Ha'azinu: Listen, O heavens, and I will speak And let the earth hear the words of my mouth ." The first piece starts "quasi niente" ("pppp" as soft as possible). The powerful words that open Haazinu are transcribed here as soft as possible. The movement includes wild contrasts. Very tender lines alternate with strong and resounding chords which also alternate with dry, short and harsh note-clusters. More than once one have the main tone-series deployed as "Moses speech" in either a baritone range or as "reflected from the skies" in very high registers. It concludes again with a polyphony as...
"Ha'azinu: Listen, O heavens, and I will speak And let the earth hear the words of my mouth ." The first piece starts "quasi niente" ("pppp" as soft ...
Haikus, duo for cello solo and percussion attempts to bring into the musical world the particular aesthetics of the Haiku. The short poems known as Haiku are in essence very different from the poetic literature of the western world. By bringing together some phenomenon, facts generally gathered from nature, flowers, plants, animals, weather conditions and so, often by creating uncommon associations between them, these lovely short poems act as triggers to create feelings as an "after-effect." Haikus do not tell a story neither they describe personal feelings, rather they trigger feelings....
Haikus, duo for cello solo and percussion attempts to bring into the musical world the particular aesthetics of the Haiku. The short poems known as Ha...