Óscar Prados: Chant des Nuages du Soir What it is like? :) Completed in 2012, this work for large orchestra establishes the changing colours of clouds at dusk as an inspirational starting point. Textural and harmonic characterized masses come into play to evoke clouds-like movements in an indirect way, and its external argument follows the ascending and descending excitation of these colours created in the sky by the sunset. However, this music goes further than a simple sounding translation of a primary visual idea: it is not a mere outer painting, but chiefly an internal one that converts this piece into an emotional reading of a daily -but really unrepeatable- spectacle. The resonant and wide-ranging harmonic universe (even from occasional triads to highly complex chordal and polichordal structures) evolves alternatively from darkness to brightness. Harmony is coordinated with a progressive and elaborated treatment of texture of independent and interdependent masses -sometimes canonically organized- that often seem to move with different velocities, and melodic constructions are based on minor and fragmentary elements and motifs that establish a kaleidoscopic parameter of cohesion and unity through the entire work. Orchestral writing intends for an elaboration of timbre that does not renounces to conserve fundamental guidelines of European tradition in orchestration. In fact, the title suggests certain unavoidable bonds with Impressionist and Post-Impressionist language. Nevertheless this piece turns to a more developed concept of several aesthetic principles which are frequently associated to those, and combines them with many other deeply rooted influences, specially Romantic and Post-Romantic, but also with some proceedings that are inspired by some composers from peripheral European countries that rejected applying postulates of the official avant-garde in the 20th century. In consequence, the musical discourse lays a carefully planned surface rhythm leading to enormous orchestral climax, increasing textural densifications and surprising but strongly integrated harmonic events, all of them essential parameters of speech in this poem for symphonic orchestra.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:06:19 +0000
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