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Liner on Sea
Piano
BLANCAFORT, ManuelReg.: B.3954
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- Review: BESSES, Antoni
- Ensemble: Solo.
- Genres: Classical / contemporary: Solos.
- Language of the comment: Spanish, Catalan, English
- Product format: Partitura
- Difficulty level: Intermediate-advanced
- Period: 1st half S. XX
- Publishing house: Editorial Boileau
- Collection: Siglo XXI
- No. of pages: 24
- Measure: 31,00 x 23,00 cm
- Lenght: 9'15''
- ISMN: 979-0-3503-3994-3
- Available in digital: No
- Available for rent: No
Manuel Blancafort both knew and felt the orchestra, perhaps more than most of his Catalan contemporaries. This explains why an important part of his very extensive catalogue of piano works and at the same time his works for other instruments are conceived from an orchestral point of view. This is also seen in this work, Liner on Sea, the second piece of the tryptic American Souvenir. The other movements are Hommage à Chaplin [Homage to Chaplin] and Discontinous Melody, the later one exists only in an orchestral version.
The work in question is found in various manuscripts which pose certain questions in relation to the piano version. One of these versions was premiered in Paris in 1965 by the pianist Julio Pons. Given the special coloristic importance of a work that evokes with vivid imagination the adventures on an ocean liner, I decided to undertake a revision of this work based on certain passages and specific measures that are more clearly seen in the orchestral score than in the one for piano. My intention in this project, to which I have brought immense passion, has been to respect as carefully as possible the distinctive details of form and style of Manuel Blancafort. Much can be said about the characteristics of this work which is both complex and very dense. I am going to choose a particularly significant detail which is that the different modulations tend toward iridescent flat keys which pivot around the initial tonality of C sharp Major, the same tonality as the fourth Fugue of the first book of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. In the introduction (measures 3 and 4) Blancafort utilizes the same four notes of the Fugue by the German composer. And, in the final six measures of the very dense coda, this same motive appears again. It is important to be aware that these four notes also allude to the name Bach (stream or brook in German). And, this connotation leads us to believe that there are hidden symbols in a work that evokes wáter with visionary mastery. This music makes us aware that this is one of “our” composers, a universal figure, who has given us a very rich body of work, with notable instrumental variety, in addition to his indisputable value as a composer.
Antoni Besses
- Prefaci / Preface / Prefacio
- Liner on Sea
- Annex / Addendum / Annexo
- Manuel Blancafort i de Rosselló
