Awesome experience, gonna share this with a few people and see what they make of it! My favourite of his string works I've heard Also 10:45 sudden Xenakis 'Tetras' flashbacks? :O
First movement feels so Jazzy with the rhythms and typical jazz elements. The second movement sounds easily like something from Debussy or Ravel, highly impressionistic by nature.
I really like that I found another work by Kapustin which has long sections using fast left-hand fingerwork. So far the only other such work I remember off the top of my head is the second subject of the perpetual motion finale of Sonata No 2.
I will never understand why anyone could hate this music. It is colorful, scintillating, unpredictable. One can look through a kaleidoscope and enjoy the random play of colors and shapes, but when listening to this music many people want it to be what it is not; pleasant and simple melodies, diatonic tonality, etc.
It's interesting how much easier to read and seemingly simpler these computer engraved scores are to his earlier hand engraved ones. The subtle differences in readability which the computer can guarantee make a huge difference, especially for music of this caliber. The clutter of his old scores is completely gone
Whenever I hear these I wish the accents were punchier. Could be slowed down *barely* to make those come out. A lot of those are what make the idiom, not just the harmony.
Спасибо за публикацию! Это восхитительное произведение Берио! Впечатляет работа исполнителя... Его точность исполненения вызывает уважение. Я получил большое удовольствие от прослушивания, спасибо!
If played for me unawares, i would never guess, Ferneyhough. Admittedly, i am not a devoted listener of his the way i am of other Americans. This is rather tame by comparison with his string quarters.
Some structure analysis I did: OVERTURE Seems to be pretty basic sonata form 0:00 - Intro 0:21 - Exposition: A section 1:11 - Exposition: B section 2:10 - Development on the A and B sections 3:17 - Recapitulation: A section 3:47 - Recapitulation: B section 4:40 - Coda SLOW WALTZ The first two minutes are basically one long melody, then there's a shorter variation on it. 5:05 - Theme 7:04 - Variation on theme 8:17 - Coda, starting with a variation on the first part of the theme INTERMEZZO This was the hardest one for me to analyze, because the structure is unusual and each of the themes incorporates ideas from other themes. It almost seems to follow an arch/symmetric form with an ABCBA structure. The middle section that I labeled as C theme and variation on A theme could also just be considered as one development section. If anyone has other ideas on how to analyze this movement, please let me know! 9:12 - A theme 9:36 - Long transition 9:59 - B theme 10:26 - C theme then transition 11:04 - Variation of A theme 11:17 - C theme repeated then transition 11:33 - Variation on A theme repeated 11:49 - B theme repeated 12:18 - A theme repeated (ending modified to be more conclusive) RONDO Seems to be in standard rondo form (ABACABA) 13:06 - A section 13:37 - B section 14:44 - A section 15:06 - Transition to C 15:16 - C section 16:09 - Transition back to A 16:26 - A section 16:56 - B section 18:05 - A section 18:21 - Coda using the A theme
