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BBC NOW, Led by Marzena Diakun, Performs the UK Premiere of Thierry Pécou's Cara Bali Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Jan. 25, 2023

Marzena Diakun led BBC NOW and pianist Alexandre Tharaud in the UK premiere of Thierry Pécou's Cara Bali Concertoon January 27 at Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. Thierry Pécou notes:

"The gamelan has provided the source of poetic and formal inspiration for my new piano concerto. The books on the Gamelan Gong Kebyar by the ethnomusicologist Michael Tenzer have given me the opportunity to immerse myself in the mechanisms of this music on which the entire composition is based. The percussive character of the piano clearly evokes the gongs and metallophones of the gamelan. In both movements, we can find the complexity of constantly varying interlocking parts, the time cycles interrupted by the low gong and the seven-note pelog mode. ‘Cara Bali’ could be translated as ‘Bali style’, but my objective is to create points of departure for the imagination and not to imitate the inimitable."

Listen to Pécou's Méditation sur la fin de l'espèce (2017) performed by Ensemble Variances:

To learn more about Thierry Pécou, visit: schott-music.com.

Thierry Pécou
Cara Bali Concerto (2020)
for piano and orchestra
3(3.pic).3(3. eh).3.3(3. auch Kfg.)-4.Piccolo-Trp.2.3.1-timp-2perc(I: Vibr. · Röhrengl. · Chin. Gliss.-Operngong · 2 Chin. Holzbl. - II: 3 Plattengl. · 4 Cencerros · thailändische Gongs · Tamt. · 4 Congas · 4 Tomt. · gr. Tr. · Quakender Klangfrosch)-hp-str(max.: 16 · 14 · 10 · 8 · 6; min.: 14 · 12 · 8 · 6 · 4)
43'

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