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Alessandro Solbiati
Mari
(1997)
for fl., cl., vl, vlc and pf


Length: 15:00
1� Performance: Conservatorio di Musica - Torino - 10/1997

Commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture in 1997 and given its first integral performance in Paris by the Ensemble Alternance, Mari consists of two movements of similar length.
The first moverment is without the cello and has two brief immediately conflicting situations which alternate in varied form, the one with a subdued chorale for flute, clarinet and violin and the other a short melodic sequence on the tailpiece of the piano. The six different situations which result all maintain a certain lightness and a kind of expressive "medietas".
The second movement is very different: the cello breaks in, becoming a concertante instrument, echoed or opposed by the clarinet (by now bass), the colours become stronger, the tonal characteristics more pronounced, the registers used violently contrasted. The movement is divided into two diametrically different zones: the first, entirely based on "animated" agogics ("Con fuoco", "Fluido, scivoloso", "Presto funebre", etc.), has an initial sequence of six sounds that become material for seven successive always more pressing elaborations, while the second - very slow and dreamlike - consists of the progressive accumulation of melodic and polyphonic elements over and above/on top of the isochronous and progressively ascending chimes of the piano.