Chamber Ensemble
SKU:
HL.14021749
For
Percussion and
Orchestra. Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP00076.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14021749).
ISBN
9788759889817.
Danish.
Poul
Ruders' MONODRAMA,
dedicated to percussion
virtuoso Gert Sorensen
and commissioned by The
Danish Radio, was written
in New York in the early
winter 1988 and makes the
centre as well as the
middle of the tri-part
opus called The Drama
Trilogy. All three works
employ the word Drama in
their title, Drama in the
original meaning of the
word: event. No specified
event, but a premonition
or omen rather, that
something is afoot, a
free Drama-offer from
which anyone may populate
the stage of his private,
inner theatre.The first
piece of the series
DRAMAPHONIA for piano and
chamber ensemble was
premiered in London in
the spring of 1988 by
Lontano and Poul
Rosenbaum. This piece is
emotionally and
rhythmically unstable as
opposed to MONODRAMA
(single-event) which is
modelled from the
archetypal idea of
obtaining accomplishment
from nothingness. The 31
instruments of the
orchestra (no flutes and
no violins or violas) are
more or less wrapped
around the solo-part to
become one with that and
thus emerge as one,
gigantic percussion
instrument. The
rhythmical patterns of
the orchestral part more
or less follow those of
the percussionpart, a
single-event also on the
rhythmical level.After 20
minutes climbing toward
the peak of rage, the
composition casts its
slough and is reborn into
a chorale-like march and
the struggle between
totally depopulated
sound-scapes and
ferociously roaring
sub-oceanic storms begin
and the piece paces
toward the abyss; rage
becomes despondency, New
Rage as opposed to New
Age, the spineless
worshipper of beauty
without pain.The third
instalment of the DRAMA
TRILOGY, the cello
concerto POLYDRAMA will
be premiered in Stockholm
May 1990.MONODRAMA lasts
aprox. 32 minutes.Poul
Ruders.