Bobby Ge - The Light That Breaks Through, concerto for piano and strings [Score Follower Video]
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- Completed October 18, 2020
Premiered March 29, 2021 at the Lviv Philharmonic by Natalia Martynova, piano, the KLK String Orchestra, and Roman Kreslenko, cond.
Audio mastered by Andrew Bohman
0:00 - I. In the Haze
2:39 - II. Cloud-front
7:00 - III. A Ray of Light
Having lived most of my life in major metropolitan centers, nature has only rarely served as an inspiration for my work, and never more so than with The Light That Breaks Through. Written at an artist colony in upstate New York, I found myself surrounded by all kinds of novel sights - vast stretches of open sky, meadows of wild thyme, vistas of the Hudson Valley extending into an ageless horizon. I began taking multiple walks a day to try and soak it all in, as if to make up for my years spent in the city.
This piece derives its title from the beauty of sunlight spilling through crevices in the sky. Filtered through crisscrossing branches and insouciant cloud layers, the resultant light on my forest walks possessed a sprightly capriciousness. I felt a kind of kinship with its occasional clarity, particularly as an improviser: I often sit at the piano for hours before ideas solidify beyond the haze of experimentation and into music.
I sought to create a concerto that would feel like one of these unbroken improvisations: the pianist fantasizing, the strings evoking the soloist’s imagined soundscapes. The piano begins by tentatively poking and prodding at a simple three-note motif, and as such, the strings cast a similarly uncertain backdrop. As the soloist extends into grander, more explosive gestures, the strings swell in strength and take on a life of their own. Eventually, the piano emphatically regains control, and gradually returns to the opening material, as though recovering a lost memory. This time, the pianist gently invites the strings into a hymn-like melody. The piece culminates in celebratory arpeggios of the main motif that gradually drift up and away, retracting into the pianist’s highest register.
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love the detunedness of the piano 1!!!!!!
hahahahha thanks lol honestly that was not my idea - that was the piano's :P
Incredible combination of tonal harmony and contemporary timbre...
thank ya! that's indeed pretty much what i'm aiming for in almost every piece i write!
Such an inspiration for some of my own compositions!
glad you enjoy! hope to hear some of your work soon!
It is like 80 s Pop Jazz sound destabilized by durational incosistency/proportional notation and timbral string writing. It surely works formally. Though I would maybe prefer a more clear cut structure resembling to conventional one instead of one movement concerto form (which is quite contemporary in my perspective), and some extended techniques in Piano part also to create contrasts.
But somehow this music maintains it's energy and the flow is quite attractive.
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@@merenarin1579 lol wow thanks for the take! yeah, i would love to write a more conventional large-scale concerto sometime - this short one had more to do with the restrictions on the commission than my actual artistic interest. cool that you found those connections with 80s pop jazz - i definitely wasn't thinking of that, but i hope you enjoyed!
😮😮😮😮Bravisimo
quite delicious.....
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lol happy birthday oliver