Diaries
INFORMATION
- Subtitle: para piano y orquesta de cámara
- Composer: Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez
- Country: México
- Format/s:
Sextet or more
- Instruments:
Solo piano,
Flute (+piccolo),
Oboe,
Clarinet (+ bass clarinet),
Bassoon,
French Horn,
Trumpet,
Bass trombone,
3 Percussions,
String quintet (2 violins, viola, cello and double bass)
- Movements: I. Machine with Cat Whiskers / II. Dream Bolero / III. Machine with Roller Chain / IV. Machine with Messiaen
- Year of composition: 2012
- Approximate duration: 16:50
- Description: Diaries is a collection of (mostly) short pieces for piano and large ensemble written in 2012. The individual titles of these movements reflect, like previous pieces of mine, a response to the work of American sculptor Arthur Ganson. They were composed rather quickly, unselfconsciously, "from left to right", and are based on a sort of "personal archeology" stance, whereby all initial motivic material was dug out of older works or sketches I had lying around. These pieces are, therefore, much more about what I felt I could do with the material to bring it back to life than about the integrity or alchemic substance of the material itself. What Calvino says about his own creative process applies to my own: "I have always aimed at...the motion that arises naturally from the image, while still being aware that one cannot speak of a literary result until this stream of imagination has been turned into words."
- Commissioned by: Comisionada por la Orchestra of the League of Composers/ISCM.
- Dedication: Para el pianista Daniel Pesca.
PREMIERE DATA
- Premiere location: Miller Theatre, New York City.
- Premiere date: 07/05/2012
- Premiere performers: Orchestra of the League of Composers
MORE INFORMATION
- Location: Contactar al compositor a través de su correo electrónico: carlossg@esm.rochester.edu
- Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U7f26Cc6GU