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- Oscar Strasnoy
The End - Sum n°4 (2006)
- Le Chant Du Monde (World)
- 2.2.2.2/2.2.2.1/timp.2perc+cimb/hp.pf/str
- 9 min 34 s
Programme Note
In The End Strasnoy pursues Beethoven’s formal logic to its absolute conclusion. The work is an audacious development based on the last measures of Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony. Strasnoy takes the risk of using only major and minor perfect chords. A meditation on the idea of an end (of history, culture, symphonic form, life…), The End ‘does not stop ending’, in a permanent overheating which finishes with the sudden ‘deflation’ of the work, like a balloon.
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In The End, Oscar Strasnoy starts with a punctuation gesture, in this case the energetic scansion of the last chords of Beethoven's Symphony No. 8, which he "submits to the question", by folding the material to his desire of transformation, metamorphosis and diversion without ever giving up the first gesture; a very personal way of pointing out the conventions and diverting them, which inevitably triggers humor even if it is not directly claimed by its author. The piece ends in finesse, in the almost dematerialized texture of a synthetic sound.
23rd January 2012
Discography
Oscar Strasnoy: Works for orchestra
- LabelAeon
- Catalogue NumberAEO 1331
- ConductorSusanna Mälkki
- EnsembleL'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
- Released14th May 2013