- Informations générales
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Date de composition :
2004
- Durée : 10 mn
- Éditeur : Boosey & Hawkes
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Date de composition :
2004
- Genre
- Musique instrumentale d'ensemble [Ensemble instrumental mixte de plus de 25 instruments]
- 2 flûtes (aussi 2 flûtes piccolos, 1 flûte alto), hautbois, cor anglais, 2 clarinettes (aussi 1 clarinette en mib, 1 clarinette basse, 1 clarinette contrebasse), 2 bassons (aussi 1 contrebasson), 2 cors, 2 trompettes, 2 trombones, 3 percussionnistes, harpe, piano, 2 violons, violon II, 2 altos, 2 violoncelles, contrebasse
Information sur la création
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Date :
15 février 2005
Lieu :France, Paris
Interprètes :l'Ensemble intercontemporain, direction : Pierre Boulez.
Note de programme
Conceived as an eightieth-birthday present for the composer’s longstanding friend and supporter Pierre Boulez this colorful and often humorous piece is a swirl of reflections on six notes that spell out the dedicatee’s surname. The score is also a homage to the Ensemble InterContemporain, which was to give the first performance (as also of the composer’s Penthode and his concertos for oboe and clarinet). Accordingly, the music is a sparkling sequence of virtuoso solos and duets, including a comic turn for contrabass clarinet in the extreme low register, bright discourses for flutes and trumpets, and a cello thrust in which, Carter has observed, “the cello plays a wrong note, B natural, which the orchestra doesn’t like, so then it plays the right note, which is B flat.”
Paul Griffiths.
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