Jean Balissat
Rückblick
for violin and orchestra
- Level: intermediate / advanced
- Duration: 13'
- Genre: contemporary
- Series: Swiss Composers Series
- Composed: 1980
Reference: VN19a
Piano reduction (solo part included)
Piano reduction (solo part included)
CHF20.00
- Instrumentation: 2.2(eh).2.2-2.2.0.0-percussion, celesta, glockenspiel, harp, strings
- Published: 2013
- Publisher: Editions Bim
Rueckblick
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...
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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…