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Balissat Jean Rueckblick Vn19

Jean Balissat
Rückblick

for violin and orchestra

  • Level: intermediate / advanced
  • Duration: 13'
  • Genre: contemporary
  • Series: Swiss Composers Series
  • Composed: 1980

Reference: VN19a
CHF20.00
Piano reduction (solo part included)

Details

  • Instrumentation:

    2.2(eh).2.2-2.2.0.0-percussion, celesta, glockenspiel, harp, strings

  • Published: 2013
  • Publisher: Editions Bim

Audio samples

Rueckblick

Composer

Jean Balissat

Jean Balissat (1936-2007)

Jean Balissat was born in 1936 in Lausanne (Switzerland), and was drawn straight away to composing and conducting. He studied harmony and counterpoint in Lausanne, before taking composition, orches... Read more

About Rückblick

Subtly orchestrated environment of shadows and violent sounds

Rückblick [Looking back] is a reconstructed version by the composer of a work which originally was subtitled "Elegia notturna". During the thirteen minute work, the solo violin, this instrument that symbolizes our highest cultural values, attempts to prevail with its lyrical tradition against a harrowing dramatic fight as reflected by a subtly orchestrated environment of shadows and violent sounds, all of which ends up with a desperate questioning and repeated ritornello, escaping into the endless silence…