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Performance by Goldner String Quartet from the CD Elena Kats-Chernin. Vol. 8. |
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Blue silence : complete works for string quartet / Elena Kats-Chernin ; Acacia Quartet.
Library shelf no. CD 2406 [Not for loan]
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Work Overview
This piece exists in a number of versions. Originally commissioned by Tall Poppies (Australian CD label) for 4 double basses, it became a piece for piano solo in 1996. A year later a somewhat shortened string quartet version followed.
At the core of it lies the charleston rhythm in the lower
register, in quite a dissonant manner-based on an interval of the
major seventh. Even though the overall tone of the piece is quite
edgy, dark and harsh, the piece also has some light moments. It
is a very free approach to a genre which, as a starting point,
inspired me. I have always had a fondness for charleston and
ragtime.
The originally requested piece for four double basses got
written, starting similarly to the piano version, but developing
in a different way. That version exists on Tall Poppies CD
"Chamber of Horrors".
EKC, July 2008
Work Details
Year: 1996, this version: 1997
Instrumentation: 2 violins, viola, cello.
Duration: 7 min.
Difficulty: Medium
First performance: by Goldner String Quartet — Sep 98. University of Sydney
Awards & Prizes
| Year | Award | Placing | Awarded for/to |
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| 1996 | Jean Bogan Prize for Piano Composition | Winner | Elena Kats-Chernin |
Performances of this work
Unknown date: featuring Lisa Moore.
7 May 2023: at Kismet: Vignettes for Violin and Piano (Blue Mountains Theatre). Featuring Clemens Leske.
2 Sep 2009: at The Silvan Quartet (Christ Church St Laurence). Featuring Silvan Quartet.
Sep 98: University of Sydney. Featuring Goldner String Quartet.
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