Alba (Partitur)

Alba (Partitur) Besetzung: Solo Tpt—3.2.3.2—3.4.3.1—(4 - 8)Perc—Hp—Pf—Acdn—Str Uraufführung am 20.02.2015 in München: SO des Bayrischen Rundfunk, Ltg. Peter Eötvös, Marco Blaauw (Trompete) alba L. fem. of albus "white," from PIE root *albho- "white", albe OE. In painting the most extreme bright and light achromatic colour to the point of absolute luminosity. Devoid of shade and greyness, white is notably ardent, the colour of fury. Alba is the final work in a series of three concertos - Still, Void and Alba. Each title defines a condition, or state, of absence in relation to sound, to space and to colour, respectively, and each refers to a text of Samuel Beckett. Taken from the collection Echo´s Bones, Alba is an intensely lyrical poem. Beckett weighs each and every word and it´s shadow, it´s echo. This poem ends looking forward to the short and intense prose texts written at the end of his life - his profoundly reduced, almost skeletal, prose, both mercilessly direct and yet exquisitely fragile. Alba before morning you shall be here and Dante and the Logos and all strata and mysteries and the branded moon beyond the white plane of music that you shall establish here before morning grave suave singing silk stoop to the black firmament of areca rain on the bamboos flowers of smoke alley of willows who though you stoop with fingers of compassion to endorse the dust shall not add to your bounty whose beauty shall be a sheet before me a statement of itself drawn across the tempest of emblems so that there is no sun and no unveiling and no host only I and then the sheet and bulk dead (Rebecca Saunders)