related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 4
Genre:
Unknown
Suite : for piano, percussion & string orchestra, 1982-1991 / Luctor Ponse
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
4-8perc pf str
Elegie : voor strijkers, opus 22, 1991 / Marc van Delft
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Other combinations of string instruments; String orchestra
Scoring:
7vl 2vla 2vc cb
Duodecimet no. 1 : voor 12 strijkers, 1979 / Hardy Mertens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Other combinations of string instruments; String orchestra
Scoring:
3vl 2vla 2vladg 3vc 2cb
composition
Symfonietta : voor strijkers, op. 66 / Géza Frid
Other authors:
Frid, Géza
(Composer)
Contains:
Andante capriccioso
Allegro giusto
Description:
Program note (English): Bravely aiming at an 'Umwertung aller Werte' - a revaluation of all values - the present-day musical idioms are still in their experimental stages. For the composer whose development is founded on a traditional basis, it is impossible, however, to stand aside: the current contrasts between tonal and a-tonal, between pure sound effects and 'old-fashioned' methods of working with motifs, entail problems of every kind. This Symfonietta, purposely scored for the austere strength of a string orchestra, also bears witness to these conflicts; not only in the manifold contrasts between the two movements - the first, thin of sound and unstable of design, the notoric second, solidly built - but also in the numerous melodic, harmonic, contrapuntal and instrumental clashes. The fact that the constructive element and tonality finally bear the upper hand is not meant as a pointer to the future. - GÉZA FRID