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A new piano score, Luctus; C# minor with a brief modulation in G#m. Play time of around 7'38". Comments welcome, as ever.
Working out a few ideas for a new piece. The working title, a nod to a Jorge Luis Borges poem, is the "Nada a Nadie" of the subject line. Comments on it, or any of the others as usual, are welcome.
Note: the tremelo strings are flawed and jerky in this recording; it needs to be re-recorded.
No quedará en la noche una estrella.
No quedará la noche.
Moriré y conmigo la suma
Del intolerable universo.
Borraré las pirámides, las medallas,
Los continentes y las caras.
Borraré la acumulación del pasado.
Haré polvo la historia, polvo el polvo.
Estoy mirando el último poniente.
Oigo el último pájaro.
Lego la nada a nadie.
The earlier string influence led to the completion of my sixth quartet. I'm not particularly satisfied with this work, I'll confess. Most likely I will eventually vastly alter it, or withdraw it altogether as unsatisfactory. There are a few passages I think might work, but for the most part I'm unhappy with it, especially with the first violin part. While it lasts, if anyone's curious, it can be heard here:
Considering Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's, Rosenkranz Sonaten, and having, as he, "faith in the strings" (i.e., his "fides in fidibus" remark which I've used as a subject here), I wanted to work a bit with them and, studying him, work with his style as well. That toying around resulted in three pieces, or alternatively, one throw-away piece and two fragments. For any interested, "Duet for Violin and 'Cello in Eb minor" is the finished study, and the fragments are the duet in G# minor and the piece for solo violin. I may pick up the fragments for further development at some point, the other duet in particular.
