From the Publisher
In 2002, I composed a 30-bar formant for flute and clarinet, in response to Rilke’s poem “Orpheus. Euridike. Hermes”. During the next nine years I tried unsuccessfully to expand it into a full-scale piece, although I eventually used the flute part of the formant as the basis of two solo works, A Small Revelation (2012), written as a 70th birthday tribute to my teacher Brian Ferneyhough, and the more substantial Four Aspects of Euridice (2014).
Eventually, I composed A Greater Revelation between April and May 2015. The piece is actually a series of revelations. As in A Small Revelation, the original grid is subjected to four layers of variative activity, which gradually peel away, almost, but not quite, revealing the music as originally conceived. Each of these layers is subjected to up to six further procedures, creating four further versions of the grid, which are, in their turn, also almost revealed in their original form. These five different revelations are interleaved, and (like the different routes taken by the various types of music forming my alto flute piece Desire Lines (2014)), “creat[e] force fields, which nudge the music along parallel but differing routes”.
A Greater Revelation was given its first performance on October 20th 2018 at the Twin Cities New Music Festival, by flautist James DeVoll and clarinettist Paul Schimming.
Performance duration (approx): 11'00
Item Details
Instrumentation
- Part 1: Flute
- Part 2: Bb Clarinet
Publisher: Composers Edition
Publisher's reference: CE-JE1AGR1-PR-S
Our Stock Code: 1447903
Media Type: Paperback - Playing score(s) (9 pages [score])
