Toccata Inquieta (2011)
harpsichord and ensemble (1111/1210/2perc pn hp/strings - 3vn 2va 2vc 1db)
9 minutes
written for and premiered by Ensemble Intercontemporain with Dimitri Vassilakis (hpschd) and Susanna Mälkki (cond)
1/12/2012 Cité de la Musique, Paris, France
1/14/2012 Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany
Toccata Inquieta (2011) is about a night when I cannot easily fall asleep because musical scenes consistently present themselves. Tiny musical gestures come to visit me and distract my slumber with continuous, spontaneous, and
simultaneous development. Intermingled with occasional concerns about current projects, future career, even the possibility of oversleeping the next day, the musical ideas keep whimsically morphing and accelerating themselves, until they become a flamboyant dance, which betrays my drowsy condition. After the carnival of musical processions burns itself into ash, sleep eventually prevails…
9 minutes
written for and premiered by Ensemble Intercontemporain with Dimitri Vassilakis (hpschd) and Susanna Mälkki (cond)
1/12/2012 Cité de la Musique, Paris, France
1/14/2012 Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany
Toccata Inquieta (2011) is about a night when I cannot easily fall asleep because musical scenes consistently present themselves. Tiny musical gestures come to visit me and distract my slumber with continuous, spontaneous, and
simultaneous development. Intermingled with occasional concerns about current projects, future career, even the possibility of oversleeping the next day, the musical ideas keep whimsically morphing and accelerating themselves, until they become a flamboyant dance, which betrays my drowsy condition. After the carnival of musical processions burns itself into ash, sleep eventually prevails…