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Implacable Gifts

Sheet Music: Score

Implacable Gifts : concerto for two pianos and orchestra / Carl Vine.

by Carl Vine (2018)

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  • Instrumentation: 2 solo pianos, piccolo, flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet in Bb, bass clarinet in Bb, bassoon, contrabassoon, 4 horns in F, 2 trumpets in C, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion (2 players), harp, strings.

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The principle of a concerto with a single soloist is well understood: the soloist is a hero assisted, and sometimes challenged, by the orchestra. But what is the rationale for two heroes? Are they at war, competing, collaborating, or just chatting? While wondering how to reconcile these options, I was assailed by a stream of musical ideas perfect for two pianos with accompaniment, but which didn't conform to a wider architectural scheme.

These ideas were so persistent that they simply demanded inclusion, leaving me to find a binding principle later on. This situation brought to mind The Arrival of Implacable Gifts, a 1985 painting by Australian surrealist James Gleeson (1915-2008) in which disparate dazzling images are woven into a roiling sea of intrigue. Gleeson spoke, about this painting, of gifts dropping from the sky, things that we longed for but which on arrival became unavoidable, and not always completely welcome.

The first movement, Irresistible Urges, is a collection of the original striking sonic images that were the inescapable, implacable gifts that engendered the composition. The middle two movements emerged with distinctly narrative characteristics, and so became Folk Story and Fairytale, the latter becoming increasingly fanciful. Music contains neither verbs nor nouns, so I can't tell exactly what the stories are, and invite the listener to imagine their own. The final movement returns to the ineluctable and inexorable, motifs that lead us to the unpreventable end of the music.

Published by: Australian Music Centre (under licence from Faber Music) — 1 score (91p. -- A3 (portrait))

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 24 mins

Contents note:

i. Irresistible Urges -- ii. Folk Story -- iii. Fairytale -- iv. Inevitable Conclusion.

Commissioned by Geoff Stearn, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra for performance by West Australian Symphony Orchestra.

First performance by Kathryn Stott, Piers Lane, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Rory Macdonald at WASO: Ravel and Vine (Perth Concert Hall) on 11 May 2018

Includes programme notes.

Typeset edition.

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