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Description

This fifteen-minute piece takes its title, “Heart of Onyx,” from the Onix Ensemble of Mexico, which
commissioned it, but the music refers also to the durability of the stone, which, despite being so hard, lends
itself to being carved into many shapes; in Mexico it is often turned into wind chimes producing wonderful
sounds. The onyx is a stone at once strong and mutable.

Its character is rendered in this work in the contrast of harsh sounds with ideas that are more melodic or
more subtle. The trajectory of the piece unfolds in this direction and evolves through different sections in
which one idea may prevail and develop or be transformed. In this way, small ideas develop into large
sections, an example being the glissando of the strings. Also, ideas may be transformed, as happens when
the fluttertonging of the winds is developed into the staccatissimo or fortissimo clusters of the strings, which
are almost noise but become softer by changing the bow pressure as the glissando section opens. But
mostly, it is the opposition between ideas that creates the drama of the piece. (H. P.)

Details

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Duration
15 minutes
Scoring
1 Flute(=piccolo=alto flute=bass flute), 1 B-flat Clarinet (=Bass Clarinet in B-flat), 1 Piano, 1 Violin, 1 Viola, 1 Violoncello
Composition date
2005

Performances

16 April 2018

Auditorio 400, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Calle de Santa Isabel, 52, 28012 Madrid

Grup Instrumental de Valencia, conducted by Joan Cervero

4 April 2018

Auditorio 400 of the Museo de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid

Grup Instrumental de Valencia conducted by Joan Cervero

11 February 2014

Plaza San Nicloas, Bilbao

Ensemble Kuraia

12 May 2012

Miller Theatre, Columbia University School of the Arts, USA

Ensemble Signal with Irvine Arditti (violin) cond. Brad Lubman

27 October 2010

Festival Traiettorie, Parma, Italy

MDI Ensemble of Milan cond. Yoichi Sugiyama

27 January 2010

Tonhalle in Dusseldorf

Ensemble Aventure cond. Robert HP Platz

25 January 2010

Elisabeth Schneider Stiftung, Wilhelmstr. 17a, Dusseldorf

Ensemble Aventure cond. Robert HP Platz

2 February 2008

Music of the Americas Day, The Lighthouse, Poole

Kokoro

26 November 2007

Konzerthaus Berlin, Werner-Otto-Saal, Gendarmenmarkt, 10117 Berlin

Ensemble Plural cond. Joan Cervero

20 May 2006

Centro Nacional de Artes, Mexico City

Onix Ensemble