violinist composer conductor
Cadence En Espace
for viola and piano
2010
Commission: Yuko Shimizu-Amoyal
Duration: 10 minutes
First performance: 15 May 2010, Grande Salle de Conservatoire de Lausanne, viola: Yuko Shimizu-Amoyal, piano: Mark Pantillon
Italian premiere: 5 June 2011, Torrita di Siena International Festival, viola: Vlad Maistorovici, piano: Dario Bonuccelli
UK premiere: 20 January 2012, Romanian Cultural Institute London, viola: Daniel Palmizio, piano: Antoine Françoise
Score and parts available at Universal Edition
About the work:
Inspired by the canon-powered stadium solos of Brian May, Cadence En Espace is a virtuosity tour-de-force for viola and piano evoking melodic journeys through warping spaces, suitable as recital showpiece with allusions to electric guitar sonorities. In seven abstract episodes, the sound emerges from "unidimentional" space in slow expansion, passing through "large closed" spaces, "open unstable" spaces, "curved" space-time, "pulverised" spaces, "compact" spaces, to return to unidimensionality at the end.