Additional information
Publisher | Faber Music |
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ISBN | 0571518044 |
Primary composer/editor/arranger | Adès, Thomas |
Published date | 20/08/1998 |
Forces | Piano |
£12.99
Thomas Adès’ Darknesse Visible for piano solo (1992) is a 7-minute explosion of John Dowland’s lute song In Darknesse Let Me Dwell (1610). No notes have been added; indeed, some have been removed. Patterns latent in the original have been isolated and regrouped, with the aim of illuminating the song from within, as if during the course of a performance.
Adès transforms the piano into an instrument that’s alchemically capable of sustaining a continuous line of melody; the technique of ceaseless tremolo that he demands of the player conjures a ghostly shimmer from the instrument.
Publisher | Faber Music |
---|---|
ISBN | 0571518044 |
Primary composer/editor/arranger | Adès, Thomas |
Published date | 20/08/1998 |
Forces | Piano |