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World Premiere of Friedrich Cerha's 3 Situationen

Nov. 01, 2018

World Premiere of Friedrich Cerha's <em>3 Situationen</em>

On November 2, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra gave the world premiere of Friedrich Cerha's 3 Situationen for string orchestra at the Wiener Musikverein under the direction of Duncan Ward. The composer notes:

"Following the composition of my orchestral pieces Nacht and Eine blassblaue Vision, my thoughts shifted increasingly toward the rugged tonal contrasts between individual orchestral groups. Recently, I am much more interested in the fine differentiations within a homogeneous body of sound. And that’s how I composed these three pieces for fifty strings.

The titles, "Disturbed Meditation", "Mad Swarm of Birds" and "Attempt at Ascension", correspond to the essentials of the musical processes. In the first, there are increasing attacks in the calm basic action, in the last, there is a sonic manifold, a gradual movement from a deep, dark mass into the icy height of string flageolets. Behind the swarming movements of the second piece stands a childhood experience: the invasion of flocks of birds into the autumnal vineyards.

Beyond the optical impression, I was impressed by the exact distance, the total commonality in the slightest change of flight direction and the complete merging of the individual in the group - a process of de-individualization, that I hope never to see in the realm of human societies."

Listen to Friedrich Cerha's Impulse (1992-1993) here:


(Impulse/Cerha/Weiner Philharmoniker/Pierre Boulez, conductor)

For more information on Fredrich Cerha, visit universaledition.com

Friedrich Cerha
3 Situationen (2015-2016)
for string orchestra
0.0.0.0-0.0.0.0-str(14.12.8.8.6)
ca. 15' 

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