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Expansion – Inversion – Kontraktion – Eskalation
Composer:
Fabian Svensson
Instrumentation:
Piano
Year of composition:
2002
Duration:
13'
FunFact:
Shortlisted for the Gaudeamus prize in 2002
Program note:
Two important decisions that I made when planning this piece for solo piano were not to deal with virtuosity and not to treat the instrument percussively. Instead, I wanted to create a work focusing on the richness and beauty of the actual sound of the piano; the expressive qualities inherent even in single, isolated tones. The result is a very slow and very quiet piece, austere and fragile. It could – perhaps – be called “meditative”.
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Performed by Emma Österdahl
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