related works
Two Mandelstam Songs : for soprano or tenor and piano / Elena Langer; on text of Osip Mandelstam
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr/ten pf
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord; Piano; Organ
Scoring:
cemb/pf/org
Mo-do : for amplified clavichord or harpsichord, 1974 / Ton de Leeuw
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord; Harpsichord
Scoring:
clav/cemb(ampl.)
Over the moon : for harpsichord, 1996/1997 / Caroline Ansink
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord
Scoring:
cemb
composition
L'Armoire de Couperin : Version for harpsichord / Elena Langer
Other authors:
Langer, Elena
(Composer)
Description:
While my piece hasn’t got much in common with Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin, the title reflects a similar idea of looking back on the Baroque, and paying homage to it.
The piece is in two movements, both of which play with the idea of the Baroque idiom, or being part of an imaginary Baroque suite. The first is delicate and dancing. As the second progresses, a Baroque tune gradually takes shape out of a twelve-tone row. Once the Baroque tune is complete, it dissolves again and disappears back into chromaticism.
Elena Langer