Dialogues

• Year of composition: 2020

• Instrumentation: viola & cello

• Duration: 6' approx.

• Premiere: 5th February 2020 at Orchestre national d'Île-de-France in Altforville-Paris (FR) by Anita Rocío Dowden & Madeleine Krummenacher for École d'hiver internationale en médiation de la musique

• Program notes:

The entire piece is based on the timbral and gestural interaction of viola and cello, almost always in the same register, which blend and dialogue until they become – metaphorically – a single instrument.

In a game of tensions and relaxations, of distancing and rapprochement, a wide range of timbres and techniques is explored – through a continuous "dialogue".