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Reflets
for violin and percussion, M.630 (2002-4)
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(beginning) :
LISTEN TO THE SECOND EXCERPT :
Performers :
Jan
Dobrzelewski, violin ; Romain Kuonen,
percussion
This work has been written for the Continents
Percussion Ensemble (Jan Dobrzelewski, violin ;
Stuart Marrs, percussion), which has first performed
it in June 2004, at the Teatro Nacional
of San Jose (Costa Rica). The proposed excerpt is taken from the recording of
the 1st Swiss performance, in Saint-Maurice, on July 2nd,
2004.
Duration
of the work : approximately 12 minutes
Commentary of the work by the composer :
« Reflets » (“Reflections” in English) for violin and
percussion has been written between 2002 and 2004. Violin and percussion respond
to one another, imitate, influence, attract, repulse or call out to each other,
like reflections. At some moments, one may think to the reflections of water,
which sometimes is clear and calm, and at other times agitated or even muddy.
Sometimes, it may even evoke distorting mirrors. At last, the reflections can
be of psychological nature : recalls and
reminiscences of a past which has been modified and reinterpreted by the play
of memory or subconscious.