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- Nicolas Bacri
Cantate No. 5 'Isiltasunaren Ortzadarra (Rainbow of silence)', Op. 77 (2002)
- Le Chant Du Monde (World)
Commissioned by the Orchestre Régional Bayonne-Côte-Basque. In memoriam Gustav Mahler.
Part I - Part II
- 2(pic)2(ca)2.2/2.2.0.0/timp.2perc/hp/str(10.8.6.4.2)
- SATB choir
- mezzo soprano
- 27 min
- Joxe Antonio Artze
- Vascuence
Programme Note
This work is the result of a particular aesthetic approach, which aims to synthesize various compositional styles, often highly contrasting, within a single composition.
I believe in the idea of a kind of post-modernism founded on dialogue between the past and the present. My overarching aim as a composer is to achieve a classicism that doesn’t belong to a specific day or age. For me, music is something both precious and serious, even when involving pastiche, even when playing with notions of form, even when it becomes the way in which one can ‘win pleasure back’, an idea explored by Umberto Eco.
This assertion is at the very root of Isiltasunaren ortzadarra. J.A. Artze’s text in Basque speaks about the creative process in the metaphorical language of poetry and, to my mind, goes straight to the heart of the matter. For Artze, the creative process is in perpetual movement, it never stops creating and recreating both us and the world around us. He reminds us of what gives this movement its fundamental raison d’être: love – without which nothing can really find its true place in the world.
I believe in the idea of a kind of post-modernism founded on dialogue between the past and the present. My overarching aim as a composer is to achieve a classicism that doesn’t belong to a specific day or age. For me, music is something both precious and serious, even when involving pastiche, even when playing with notions of form, even when it becomes the way in which one can ‘win pleasure back’, an idea explored by Umberto Eco.
This assertion is at the very root of Isiltasunaren ortzadarra. J.A. Artze’s text in Basque speaks about the creative process in the metaphorical language of poetry and, to my mind, goes straight to the heart of the matter. For Artze, the creative process is in perpetual movement, it never stops creating and recreating both us and the world around us. He reminds us of what gives this movement its fundamental raison d’être: love – without which nothing can really find its true place in the world.