related works

Microsonetto : for soprano, flute, clarinet, percussion, piano/keyboard, violoncello and electronics / Nikolaï Khrust; words by Francesco Petrarca

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring: zang fl cl perc pf/kb vc tape

Dreams of the Blind : for ensemble, electronics and video text / Yannis Kyriakides

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring: voice rec cl trb vibr pf g-e vn db tape video

SCRAMBLED : for ensemble and electronics / Arnold Marinissen

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring: sax-b pf vn trb hp vc ob perc db tape

Haiku V : for piccolo, percussion and optional electronics / Veljko Nenadić

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring: picc perc (tape ad lib)

composition

Microsonetto : for soprano, flute, clarinet, percussion, piano/keyboard, violoncello and electronics / Nikolaï Khrust; words by Francesco Petrarca

Other authors:
Petrarca, Francesco (Text writer/Librettist)
Khrust, Nikolaï (Composer)
Description:
Microsonetto is written on CLXXI sonnet by Petrarch. ‘Micro-’ references to using microtonality, but also paying special attention to details; the work is written as an impression of a singing manner of a singer, who was a first interpreter of this work. Conceptually, the piece behaves like a ‘musical sonde’, which dives on music history and ‘excites’ its different layers (and certain concrete works indeed); quotations however are not demonstrated as a poster, but uses as a part of united vibration of single ‘music history soup’.
Nikolaï Khrust