String Quartet No. 2 - Chaconne in C# [score]

Описание: The chaconne, as a vehicle for abstract musical expression, found its greatest flowering in the hands of Bach, and later Vitali; otherwise, it remains an entirely antiquated compositional structure in its original form.

Perhaps owing both to my predilection for anachronistic things, and to the great impressions Bach’s and Vitali’s respective chaconnes have left on me as a composer, it seemed natural, during a period of relative creative drought, to undertake the composition of a chaconne as a creative exercise.

As for the subtitle, “Blossom,” it derives mostly from the central motif’s role as a sort of thematic blossom, out of which each constituent section of music blooms into its own floret of the interconnected whole.

Notwithstanding the ostensibly sterile nature of this piece's provenance as a sort of study, the music nevertheless remains rooted deeply in an emotional reflection on the implacable cycle of new growth, decay, and inevitable death to which all living things are bound; wherefore the blossom, that symbol of the start of the cycle anew, seems all the more beautiful.

Performed by Quartetto Noûs at the Conservatory of Music Benedetto Marcello in Venice, Italy.

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