Disc: From Darkness, Light
Album: From Darkness, Light
Name: 1. Prelude
Track: 01
Author: Emily Howell
Year: 2007
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- Opus 1 -
This six-movement for two pianos is built on a decidedly triadic base. However, the musical syntax no longer follows traditional tonal order. The six movements follow a prelude-fugue pairing and the work could have easily been titled Three Preludes and Fugues for Two Pianos.
The first movement of From Darkness, Light reminds one of a Romantic variant of a Bach prelude from his Well-Tempered Clavier. This movement consists almost entirely of upward flowing sixteenth notes relentlessly progressing through a chromatic and triadic chord progression.
The fugal second movement has a definite jazzy feel to it, probably achieved through a “blues-like“ chromaticism and a sense of syncopation achieved through on-beat sixteenth-note rests.
The third movement begins softly with repeated thirty-second note fragments and slowly grows dynamically into a petulant cadential conclusion.
The fourth movement (second fugue) includes an extraordinary length principal theme (thirteen measures in 4/4 meter).
The fifth movement (third prelude) calls and responds between pianos in its first theme contrasted with a decidedly different middle section evoking a quasi-operatic drama. The final section of this movement returns to a variation of the initial material.
The final movement (and final fugue) in some ways resembles the work’s initial fugue, having a “jazzy“ bent to it, with the work ending with a fast rush of sound.
From Darkness, Light requires that the two pianists negotiate severely gymnastic technical demands while keeping within a tight ensemble performance.
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