images of sound…
Concert of the Camerata Pacifica at the Zipper Hall in Downtown Los Angeles. Apart from Mozart and Brahms, what was really captivating was Lera Auerbach (b.1973) with her composition for Violoncello (Ani Aznavoorian, which I have seen and heard a few times and absolutely adore) and piano (Warren Jones).
Lera Auerbach writes about the last movement . . . “is one of the most intense and tragic pieces I have written. It starts on a very hight emotional point – with the cello playing microtonal trills, meant to sound more like the most intense vibrato. The image I had in mind is that of the time in life when you are standing at the very edge of an abyss when nothing is left of the past and of the future and you are alone with your trembling soul. But through the darkness and tragedy somehow there is also and inner light that emerges. At times through pain one may find lost beauty and meaning, and a feeling of tragedy may release something in one’s soul that was aching to be freed. And both instruments rise at the end to a breathtaking hight of their registers as if entering a different kind of existence.” Here is an interview with her about the meaning (or rather the mystery) of music. Not much more to add. Oh, some samples to listen to.
