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Quintet de la Sala de Llevant

Clarinete en Sib y Cuarteto de Cuerda

BENGUEREL, Xavier

Reg.: B.3429

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  • Ensemble: Quintets: Mixt.
  • Genres: Classical / contemporary: Chamber.
  • Product format: Partitura + particellas
  • Difficulty level: Advanced-superior
  • Period: 2nd half S. XX - XXI
  • Publishing house: Editorial Boileau
  • Collection: Siglo XXI
  • No. of pages: 44+64
  • Measure: 31,00 x 23,00 cm
  • Lenght: 20'
  • ISMN: 979-0-3503-0377-7
  • Available in digital: No
  • Available for rent: No

In 2003, I wrote Introspección for solo clarinet and, although I had already used the clarinet many years ago (in 1963 with a Duo for clarinet and piano), I felt the need to return to that instrument again: malleable, dynamic, with a considerable tessitura and an expressive and effective timbre both in pianissimo and fortissimo.

Except from the Piano concerto I wrote in 2003, over the last four years I have preferred to work with chamber music. In 2005 I used the clarinet again, this time alongside the classic string quartet, a combination that has always caught my attention. So this is how the Quinteto de la Sala de Llevant arose, as a work designed in a single tempo that I think follows along the same lines marked by my compositions in recent years, in the sense that all superfluous elements are removed to leave a strict musical discourse that I hope can be considered markedly expressive.

The Quinteto de la Sala de Llevant was premiered on June 29th 2005 at the Sala de Llevant in the Library of Catalonia, when I loaned my musical archives to this institution. It was performed by the clarinettist Josep Fuster (to whom the work is dedicated) and the Glinka Quartet (Ala Voronkova, Guerassim Voronkov, violins; Bernat Bofarull, viola; and Nabí Cabestany, cello).

Xavier Benguerel

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