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”.