related works
Triste Voce : for viola / Elena Langer
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Viola
Scoring:
vla
Zonder titel : voor clavichord, 1986 / Wim de Ruiter
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord
Scoring:
clav
Murder in the dark : five quarter-tone pieces for harpsichord, 1985 / Klaas de Vries
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord
Scoring:
cemb
Blue monk : for clavichord, (1974) / Jacques Bank
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord
Scoring:
clav
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