Novecento (1999)
For Chamber Ensemble
Inst:
Fl, Vln, Cl, Hrn, Vc, Bsn, Db, Pno
Duration:
10 minutes
Commission:
Asturias Symphony Orchestra for the City of Oviedo Contemporary Music Festival
Premiere:
Asturias Symphony Orchestra chamber group; Jose Luis Temes, conductor; Prince of Asturias Music Hall, Oviedo, Spain on February 10, 2000
Novecento is a personal view of the 20th Century in three movements. With this work, the composer reflects on three fundamental aspects of the development of this century:stability, more or less enduring, more or less broad, contrast between different groups and different forms, and technology, without any doubt what has push the widest and fastest advancement (and sometimes regression) of our civilization.