Luis Goemans, Zyklische Variationen Op.1

Описание: Luis Goemans - Zyklische Variationen Op.1 (2021)
Vinsenso Julius Pratama Husin - Piano

This video is from the premiere of my Cyclic Variations during the Long Night Of New Music (LNNM) 13.11.2021 at the Robert Schumann University.

Special thanks to Vinsenso, who is a wonderful pianist. And also a big thank you to Prof. Georg Schenck, who got me in touch with Vinsenso and was there for all of the rehearsals.

Go check out Vinsenso's Channel:    / @vinsensojuliuspratama5461  

To the piece:

The 12-tone row used in this piece is

5 2 0 10 7 8 6 9 4 3 11 1
or
F D C Bb G Ab F# A E Eb B C#

which is then mathematically altered into 48 different rows (including the original one). Not all rows are dodekaphonic. The composition is structured into six cycles. Each cycle following the same rules (with exeption of the final fugue).
A cycle contains five variations. The first one sets a landscape. The second one is a free melody over that landscape. The third one puts the harmony through some function, mathematical or musical (for example a retrograde or some Ax[G]). The forth one exchages the harmony with a free one. And lastly the fifth one puts the melody through some function.

00:00 - Intro
Cycle I
00:13 - Theme
1:05 - Var.I ; free melody.
1:30 - Var.II ; K[harmony A] K[harmony B]
1:54 - Var.III ; free harmony.
2:10 - Var.IV ; S3[melody A] A1[melody B]

Cycle II
2:29 - Var.V ; new landscape based on fragments of the theme.
2:56 - Var.VI ; free melody, now quartal.
3:25 - Var.VII ; A: K[harmony B] B: harmony A as rows.
3:53 - Var.VIII ; free harmony, melody now as left hand; fragmented even further.
4:41 - Var.IX ; S4[melody A]

Cycle III
5:27 - Var.X ; based on the slightly altered C[x] of the theme.
5:52 - Var.XI ; free melody.
6:15 - Var.XII ; A: F:= x-4 then x+2 ; B: F:= x-2 then x+4
6:38 - Var.XIII ; free harmony, U[S2[G]] as harmonic ostinato.
6:54 - Var.XIV ; A5[A' (first fragment of A in Var.XIII)] and S1[A'' (second fragment of A in Var.XIII)]

Cycle IV
7:15 - Var.XV ; free, A: K[S1[G]]t and KU[S1[G]]t alternating in different transpositions following the melody of the original theme. B: follows the same rules as A but now S4[G]t is also added.
7:36 - Var.XVI ; creating harmony with the rows from Va.XV and adding a stretched out version of the theme melody.
8:52 - Intermezzo (Enigma) within Var.XVI
9:04 - Var.XVI continues
9:11 - Var.XVII ; A and B: F:=x-2
9:44 - Var.XVIII ; free harmony.
10:08 - Intermezzo (Enigma) within Var.XVIII. (same as in Var.XVI)
10:19 - Var.XVIII continues
10:29 - Var.XIX ; S1[melody of the original theme] as new base for the rows.

Cycle V
10:49 - Var.XX ; free melody over the harmony of the theme.
11:06 - Var.XXI ; free melody.
11:23 - Var.XXII ; K[harmony A] and U[harmony B]
11:41 - Var.XXIII ; free harmony.
11:57 - Var.XXIV ; A1[melody A] and U[A1[melody B]11'

Cycle VI (Fuge)
12:17 - Var.XXV ; Sogetto=S2[melody of the original theme]
12:35 - Var.XXVI ; in stretto.
12:47 - Var.XXVII ; without stretto.
13:12 - Var.XXVIII ; in stretto.
13:31 - Var.XXIX ; U[Sogetto]11 as a new countersubject.

Postludio
14:07 - Var.XXX ; normal variation on the original theme.