related works

Fêtes à tensions: (les) eaux marchent : for 20 players / Luc Brewaeys

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: fl(picc, fl-a) ob cl cl-b fg h trp trb 2perc hp pf 3vl 2vla 2vc db

Tridance : Version for three violas / Kerry Woodward

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Viola
Scoring: 3vla

Harald in Germany : for viola solo / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Viola
Scoring: viola solo

Flamenco Sketches : for viola / Shin Mizutani

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Viola
Scoring: vla

composition

Utopia : for four violas / Luc Brewaeys

Other authors:
Brewaeys, Luc (Composer)
Description:
"Utopia" is at the same time my hommage to a friend since years and ardent supporter of my music (Harry Halbreich) as my salute to all the excellent viola players on this planet who daily vitiate the numerous jokes existing about them. Such a title inevitably results into huge problems for the performers : the high level of technical difficulty of the work and especially its syncronization, since I'd like them to surround the audience. The piece gets started quite "slowly" but grows to torrids of notes (also towards extreme "altitudes") in varied ways of articulation. The last section is quite slow with more melodic elements and the work ends softly with harmonic sounds. A First (partial) Performance was given during the Ars Musica Festival in March 2004. We're still waiting for a complete première, but I think the music almost requests a second (and maybe even a third) movement yet to be composed.