related works

Credeva… (in memoriam Franco Donatoni) : for 2 sopranos and orchestra / Luc Brewaeys; text: Jan Fabre

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and orchestra
Scoring: 2sopr-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2trp trb timp perc hp str

Durch Luft und Atem : Version for viola / Maxim Kolomiiets

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Viola
Scoring: vla

Zemtsov's Five : A viola quartet for use with viola students of all levels / Vanessa Lann

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Viola
Scoring: 5vla

Serenade : voor 2 altviolen, 1995 / Lowell Dijkstra

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Viola
Scoring: 2vla

composition

Utopia : for four violas / Luc Brewaeys

Author(s):
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.