Works / 2006
Silence of the Falling Snow
for 2 pianos
Programme note
A slow metamorphosis of silence of the falling snow. Alongside it is a metamorphosis of touching the piano; a study of the touches that vibrate the pianos and turn them into long sounding, resonating objects. Thus you realize that the piano keys are like certain magic buttons by which resonating abysses of the piano can be raised. If you succeed in pressing them right, you may hear at least some music of those resonating abysses, meanwhile the sounds of the key attacks are just little iceberg peaks sticking out on the surface.
Commissioned by the “Warsaw Autumn” foundation.
Duration
10'30''
Performers
Ruta & Zbignevas Ibelhauptas Piano Duo (LT)
Jeremy Doran & James Iman Piano Duo (USA)
Performances
perf. by Ivan&Diana Buffa, Nádor Terem, Budapest (HU)
Buffa piano duo. Queen's University Belfast (IE)
perf. by Diana and Ivan Buffa. Košice Philharmonics (SK)
perf. by Ivan&Diana Buffa. Concert studio of Slovac Radio. Bratistlava (SK)
perf. Kostancija Kerbedytė, Ugnė Kavaliauskaitė. International festival and competition "The Music of the Century". The Great Hall of the National M.K.Čiurlionis Art School. Vilnius (LT)
broadcast on the Concertzender (programme by Henning Bolte)
Veronika Vitaitė & Rūta Vaitkevičiūtė. M.K.Čiurlionis Music School, Druskininkai (LT)
Jeremy Doran & James Iman Piano Duo, Gorell Recital Hall, Indiana, Pennsylvania (USA)
Ruta & Zbignevas Ibelhauptas Piano Duo. 10th Polish-Lithuanian Musicology Conference. Krakow Academy of Music. Krakow (PL)