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Title
Balissat: Dialogue
Subject
Source
http://www.musinfo.ch/index.php?content=maske_personen&pers_id=63&setLanguage=en
Music Resource Item Type Metadata
Composer
Balissat, Jean (1936-2007)
Gender
Male
Work
Dialogue. Vuarmarens, Switzerland: Editions BIM
Duration
4.5 minutes
Description
This piece was composed in 1984 and dedicated to Albert Barrachina-Robert. The moderately challenging music is atonal, composed from intervallic cells, and encompasses the full range up to Eb5. The music is alternatively lyrical, impassioned, and aggressive, as evidenced in program notes in the score:
Piotr would like to have a conversation. Ilyitch can’t manage it; his response is like a monologue of his thoughts. By various means, Piotr tries to get around the indifference of Ilyitch: the neverchanging discourse, the feigned casualness, the whimpering, the impatience, the anger... At the climax, it parodies Ilyitch’s words in the crudest possible way. He is choking with rage. Shaken, Ilyitch tries to calm Piotr. For his part, Piotr doesn’t want to hear about it...
Piotr would like to have a conversation. Ilyitch can’t manage it; his response is like a monologue of his thoughts. By various means, Piotr tries to get around the indifference of Ilyitch: the neverchanging discourse, the feigned casualness, the whimpering, the impatience, the anger... At the climax, it parodies Ilyitch’s words in the crudest possible way. He is choking with rage. Shaken, Ilyitch tries to calm Piotr. For his part, Piotr doesn’t want to hear about it...
Date Range of Work
1984