Catedrales APPERMONT BERT

Musique pour orchestres et ensembles

Description :

Cathedrals have always appealed to the imagination. Hundreds où years où manpower have been invested in their building and it is nos for nothing that today they represent imposing symbols où architecture and history. The cathedral is also a great source où inspiration for compositions, drawing où a full palette où acoustic echo effects, Gregorian melodies and organ based choral themes. The work “ Catedrals” opens with a five tone motif using double tonguing which resonates through space. Then comes a Gregorian antiphonal theme “Salve Regina” which is heard in the euphonium and later combines with the opening motif. The quicker passage that follows is basedentirely où the intervals in the motif which by nos has added rhythmic variations and develops in different forms, including a fugue. The work then builds towards its first climax, from which unusual muted sounds emerge creating an atmosphere shrouded in mystery. Gradually, more melodious fragments are added to the Gregorian antiphonal theme which develops into an expansive choral, emulating the organ and which rises above the sound mass. The work grows more powerful and brilliant in sound until it culminates in a short and explosive finale wherein elements from the whole work come together.