Description
Instrumentation: Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Violoncello
Edition: Score with parts
Duration: (16`30)
Difficulty: advanced
“A colourful, closely-woven texture of sounds in which nature is not glorified. Feverish, furious passages…then the composer experiments with sounds again, getting astonishingly close to the flute-like toad.” (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger)
“But this 21st century piece also echoed the concerns of a gentle, fragile and yet threatening nature.
The questioning sub-title conveys this feeling which, on hearing, is achieved when clouds gather on the harmonic horizon or glissando lines sweep relentlessly down into the depths. It is music which is emotionally and intellectually stimulating…” (Rheinische Post)
Camille van Lunen on her music:
The unique notes of the Burgundian midwife toad, both singly and in chorus, together with other mysterious sounds of nature became sources of inspiration for my first string quartet.
