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        This work has been commissioned by Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid

        • 3.2.3.2/4.3.3.1/3perc/pf[cel]/str(vnI.vnII.db)
        • 8 Cellos
        • 18 min 30 s

        Programme Note

        In Hauskor (Basque: ‘friable’, ‘brittle’, ‘crumbly’) the symphony orchestra metaphorically turns into dust. The piece portrays a kind of ‘musical Pompei’, where western music history and tradition are brought to ruins. Remnants, or ‘ghosts’ of this tradition – for example, the evocation of the four-horn section (an emblematic idiom of symphonic music) and of other traditional orchestral gestures – can be heard throughout the work. Like so often in Lazkano’s work, the story told is the wearing-out of musical material over time – a metaphor for our own destiny and a reflection of the composer’s pessimistic (or lucid) perception of history
        Commissioned by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra and the Aeos

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