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Preludes and afterthoughts Fantasy-transcriptions on Chopin's Preludes op. 28
RSN:
68622
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Composition Date:
2011
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:17:00
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Call Number
MI 2110 F492pre
Genre
Solo Piano
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2014-04-28
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
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Preludes and Afterthoughts
- fantasy-transcriptions on Chopin's Preludes op. 28
, was first written to be performed with dancers at the Laban Centre for Contemporary Dance with Susan Sentler, choreographer, and was premiered at Laban Theatre, Greenwich on 14 and 15 June 2010. The idea for the music originated with work on a musical score for Konstantin Iliev's play
Nirvana
(directed by Jonathan Chadwick) at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, 2005, in which two of Chopin's Preludes appeared in many guises. Preludes and Afterthoughts is a kind of journey through five of Chopin's most well-known Preludes: E-Minor, A-Major, B Flat-Minor, A Flat-Major and C-Minor. The use of direct quotations in
2
and
5
and other references are meant not only to provoke dream-like memories, but also to place these pieces into a new context, like historical characters in a drama. For example, the climactic V/b-minor chord in Chopin's A Major Prelude becomes a kind of
idee fixe
, asserting itself as an element of surprise throughout the cycle (and it sounds strangely unclimactic when it appears near the beginning of the backwards version of the A-Major in
3
.) Similarly, in
1
a cadential passage linking the E-minor Prelude's two main phrases is repositioned at the opening, in a retrograde version that seems to unveil an Eastern modality, while in
5
the A Flat-Major Prelude is reduced to a single prolonged dramatic moment ("like a love song on the Titanic") by submerging it in sustaining pedal. Number
4, Whirlwinds and Sighs
, is the most complicated of the set, combining elements of the B Flat-Minor and E-Minor, with a tango-like section, a six-part ricercare based on the E-Minor's opening melodic ululation, and a final whirlwind of sound - reflecting the piece's original choreography, which was inspired by a line from Marcel Proust's poem
Chopin
(1896):
"l 'ardeur du tourbillon accroit la soif des pleurs"
(the whirlwind's ardour deludes the sob's thirst). The piece is in a kind of cyclic form, falling into seven movements: 1. Premonition (Prelude in E-Minor) 2. Memory 1 (Prelude in A-Major) 3. Dream (Prelude in A-Major) 4. Whirlwinds and Sighs (Preludes in B Flat-Minor and E-Minor) 5. Memory 2 (Prelude in A Flat-Major) 6. Dirge-Canon (Prelude in C-Minor) 7. Rounds (Preludes in A Flat-Major, A-Major and E-Minor) - D. Finch (18,04,2014)
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1 score (22 p.) ; 22 x 28 cm.
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Category
Instrument
Number
48124
Keyboard
Piano
1
Divided
No
Solo
No
Premiere
Premiere: with dance, Laban Theatre, Greenwich, 14/06/2010, Susan Sentler choreographer. First performance for piano alone: Douglas Finch, Chetham's International Festival, Manchester, 26/08/2011. Canadian tour of eleven cities including Toronto (Hart House) and Calgary (Eckhardt-Gramatte Concert Hall): 10-11/2013, Everett Hopfner, pianist.
See Also
67156, Preludes and afterthoughts, AR3042, Douglas Finch, 00:17:03
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