Little Elegies for old instruments
Arranged by Andrew Parott
Year of composition 1984/85
Duration 17 minutes
World premiere
World premiere 13. december 1986
Köln · Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Taverner Players
Conductor Andrew Parrott
Comment
In 1966 I wrote the score for Volker Schlöndorff’s first film “Young Törless”. I imagined that the sound of the ancient instruments I had chosen might act as a metaphor for the early immature, almost childish and youth- fully vulnerable souls of the protagonists in Musil’s novel. Later on, I arranged some of this music for string sextet and also made a string orchestra version. In 1985 I found the parts for the film music, but not the score. In order to make this music available again for performance on renaissance instruments, I made a new score: I wrote in the existing parts, but then felt compelled to add new lines and insert them into the old context. see also “Fantasia for Strings”
Hans Werner Henze
Instrumentation
2 Flauti a becco soprano | |
2 Flauti a becco contralto | |
1 Flauto a becco tenore | |
1 Flauto a becco basso | |
1 Cornetto | |
1 Trombone contralto | |
1 Trombone tenore | |
Percussione | 2 Piatti sospesi Tamburello basco Timpani |
Arpa | |
Cetra | |
Liuto | |
Organo | |
1 Violino | |
1 Viola | |
1 Violoncello |