ED13021 Ziggurat Anthony Gilbert

Titel (DE): Ziggurat - for bass clarinet and marimba
Titel (EN): Ziggurat - for bass clarinet and marimba
Titel (FR): Ziggurat - for bass clarinet and marimba
Komponist / Composer: Gilbert, Anthony
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Besetzung / Instrumentation: Bass-Klarinette und Marimbaphon / bass clarinet and marimba
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Kompositionsjahr / Date of Composition: 1994
Aufführungsdauer / Duration: 21'
Verlag / Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Erscheindungsdatum / Date of Publishing: 05.01.2018
Ausgabe / Publication: Partitur und Stimmen - Score and parts -
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Seiten / Pages: 60
Verarbeitung: Rückendrahtheftung - Saddle-wire stitching
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Reihe / Series: Edition Schott
ISMN: M-2201-2656-7
ISMN-13: 979-0-2201-2656-7
ISMN-EAN: 9790220126567
UPC: 841886024717

The relationship between music and architecture has for many decades been source of fascination for Gilbert. A range of works reflecting on the complexity and beauty of French medieval cathedrals has been the result. Ziggurat is in many ways a companion to these, albeit the type of structure it was engendered by existed a good millennium earlier. It was commissioned in 1993 by the Duo Contemporain, Henri Bok, bass clarinet and Miguel Bernat, percussion, as a sequal to a number of pieces he'd written for them reflecting on the architecture of Chartes Cathedral.Although it was a type of memorial to a leading figure in Babylonian (or indeed Amerindian) society, the ziggurat celebrates life. Starting at ground level, a pathway or staircase winds up around the conical structure, decorated with passages of visual narrative and imagery. Gilbert's duo for bass clarinet and marimba engages in a similar journey, continuously climbing but also episodic, with passages of wild virtuoso music separated by steady, directed motion. Colour-changes involving bass clarinet multiphonics and rich chordal writing for the marimba feature strongly.In its original form the work lasted over eighteen minutes; in 2014 Gilbert decided to extensively rewrite the work in order to sharpen its musical focus. It is now just over two thirds of its original length, with resultant heightened intensity.