Lines and Traces of Desire › 2022
violin, cimbalom | 18:30 | for Ludovico Ensemble
premiere: Lilit Hartunian (violin) and Nicholas Tolle (cimbalom); March 30, 2022 at Boston Conservatory
mvts:
I.
II. Unison
III.
IV.
V. Sonata in E Major: Adagio (Blasco de Nebra)
n o t e s
Lines and Traces of Desire is a duo for two voices seeking a shared tongue. Two movements are gestural, statements that never form a thought; a unison movement refuses to allow either voice to lead; in another the utterances are fragmented but continuous, a kind of stream of consciousness. The final movement establishes a vocabulary as the two voices excavate the memory of an early-Classical sonata and leave fingerprints in the dust.
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