Hushed, tentative scrapes... A rumbling piano here, a rolling cello there… Flurries of strings, often discordant or countermelodic, flutter and flicker across long, slow sonorous drones. Gentle, soothing chimes are rent by infrequent and unexpected blasts of unidentifiable noise.
‘Medea’ is subtitled ‘a melodrama for 8 instruments’, and while there are definite moments of drama, for the most part, this 27-minute orchestral work is preoccupied with building and maintaining simmering tension.
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