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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.