Four Windows: Scenes seen through strangers‘ windows. Oktet for flute, oboe, clarinet, two violins, viola, violoncello and double bass

Description

Oktet for flute, oboe, clarinet, two violins, viola, violoncello and double bass

Contents:

Walzer / Valse
Stille / Silence
Gespräche / Talks
Romanze / Romance

The work Four Windows is about scenes seen in other people‘s windows. It is based on the impressions of a child looking at the windows of a high-rise building opposite, observing snippets of other people‘s lives and inventing entire stories:
About an awkward elderly couple dancing a strange waltz in their apartment, firmly convinced that no one sees them („Valse“),
about a lonely man in whose house there is such an oppressive and unsettling silence that he doesn‘t dare disturb it and doesn‘t move („Silence“),
about the eternally arguing parents in the kitchen who are unable to listen to each other and engage in a dialog („Talks“),
and about the great love that cannot be seen in the window, but whose emergence can be felt even through the walls („Romance“).