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- Simon Bainbridge
Tenebrae (2009)
- Novello & Co Ltd (World)
Commissioned by the Hilliard Ensemble.
Programme Note
I have for a long time been strongly drawn to Paul Celan’s powerful and deeply poignant poem “Tenebrae”. Its rich and vivid imagery provided me with a timbral and harmonic palette that strongly defined and articulated the work’s musical structure and direction. In writing for the fascinating combination of the Hilliard ensemble and Arditti Quartet, I used the poem’s title in its English translation “Shadows” to explore and create a continuously shifting perspective between the four voices and four strings.
Simon Bainbridge
Simon Bainbridge
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