Die Forelle, oder ein Traum nach Schubert
by Sérgio Azevedo (1968)
Ref. ava080185
violino, viola, violoncelo, piano, contrabaixo
Duration 8'
The trout, or a dream by SchubertTo celebrate my former teacher at ESML and my present colleague, Christopher Bochmann, I resolved to write a piece that was a homage to several classical composers, namely some of the most admired by Bochmann like Schubert and Mahler. Essentially, I used the material from the song Die Forelle, as did Schubert in the 4th movement of his homonymous quintet, imagining a group of variations or metamorphosis in the song. Though they are distant variations from the word’s most common meaning, the work’s atmosphere is closest to that of a dream during which, in an apparently chaotic manner, various styles and epochs stream by, circling in some way Schubert’s song. A little pastiche in it’s Medieval and Renaissance interpretation, with some humour in it. Also a foreboding dream of the Viennese music to be (that renders into the Expressionist atonality and dodecaphonism, (from which Bochmann, and basically all of us, find origin..), all of it owing to the little and myopic Franz , as Mahler’s music comes as an example (from whom I quote a melody from the 9th symphony ,the last he left completed). Other echoes – like the one from the Titan Beethoven, that must have tormented the poor rejected Franz..or the one from Shostakovich, tormented by the shadow of Mahler – some more distant, others immediately identifiable, go through this dream that, like every dream, does not have a defined direction, nor an apparent logic. Yet, such lack of logic is only regarded as such by the conscious, as the unconscious continues to find clues for this distorted view of reality. Who knows if that distorted view is the closest one can get to the true reality?
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Die Forelle