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- Nicola LeFanu
Invisible Places (1986)
- Novello & Co Ltd (World)
Commissioned by the Reverend Hugh Sargent
Programme Note
This piece lasts about 12 minutes, and it plays continuously, although it is made up of 16 small movements. Throughout, the four string players form a group: sometimes the clarinet is caught up with them, but more often it is like a person pursuing an independent train of thought: sometimes talking to itself, sometimes conversational, sometimes singing.
The starting point for my Quintet was Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: like the book, my piece is composed from many small contrasting ideas that are constantly transforming, some coming to the fore as others recede. My Quintet is dedicated to Hugh Sargent, who commissioned it.
© Nicola LeFanu
The starting point for my Quintet was Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: like the book, my piece is composed from many small contrasting ideas that are constantly transforming, some coming to the fore as others recede. My Quintet is dedicated to Hugh Sargent, who commissioned it.
© Nicola LeFanu
Media
LeFanu: Invisible Places I.
LeFanu: Invisible Places II.
LeFanu: Invisible Places III.
Reviews
Nicola LeFanu’s Invisible Places is a magical work. Written in 1986 for clarinet solo and string
quartet, this music was inspired by the Italian author Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.
The language is modernistic, but hardly off-putting. There is much in the pages of this
score that is quite lovely.
quartet, this music was inspired by the Italian author Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.
The language is modernistic, but hardly off-putting. There is much in the pages of this
score that is quite lovely.
1st March 2017
Discography
Mandala 3
- LabelMetier Records
- Catalogue Numbermsv 28565
- SoloistSarah Leonard, soprano; Aleksander Szram, piano
- Released22nd February 2017