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Simon Bainbridge : Tenebrae

Commissioned by the Hilliard Ensemble.
Publisher Novello & Co Ltd
Category
 Chorus and Orchestra/Ensemble
Year Composed 2009
Solo Instrument(s)
 ATTB soli
Orchestration vn.vn.va.vc
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Full Score(s):  NOV958925
Set(s) of Parts:  NOV958925-01

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

Reviews

  • The use of silence, and of the strings to cushion the gentle, overlapping chanting of the voices on eerie chords, seemed to suggest an "otherworld" shadowing of the human.
    Richard Morrison, The Times, 10/11/2009

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