Le silence du futur- excerpts (solo, duo, trio)

Basic information

Composer Pousseur, Denis
Duration 17 min.
Year of composition 1993
First performance (year) 1994
First performance (venue) Ars Musica Festival, Brussels
First performance (performers) Ebony trio
Submitter Ensemble OI\I
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Conductor No
Soloist(s) ,

Instruments

Musicians 1st player 2nd player
Violin1
Clarinet 1
B-flat
Musicians Instruments
Keyboard 1
Piano
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Sound electronics
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Notes

Programme notes

...From the formal point of view, I envisage creativity as a game at once abstract and dramaturgical, going so far as to consider this instrumental formula particularly - and brilliantly - heterogeneous, like the coming together of three "characters", each one of whom has their own personality and history.  Starting with the choice of a nine-movement structure (3 solos- 3 duets and 3 trios) in 3 parts for three instruments, a few straightforward rules decided the ultimate form.  The aim was for each instrument in turn to be highlighted, to dialogue and crisscross with the two others in a succession of ever changing timbre combinations.  

The excerpts chosen here are : 

- the clarinet solo from part 1

- the duo for violin and piano from part 2

- the trio for bass clarinet, violin and piano from part 2

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