SCORE PUBLISHED BY DONEMUS
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Lux Aeterna was initially written for string quartet, voice and piano in 2007, a few months after my mother’s passing away. Focusing on the absolute essentials for the musical setting of the Latin text was not so much a matter of choice, but rather, the inevitable result from the totally paralyzing experience of loss.
The repetitive structure of the text is musically reflected in a series of chaconne-like variations, based on a fixed chord progression, which nevertheless, allows the voice to gradually climb to its highest register. The piano, mostly confined to accompanying during the piece, acquires in the epilogue the role of a second “voice”, that of a radiant spirit coming from afar to confess its own, untold story.
Ιn it’s present, more epxansive version for string orchestra (2022), the piece benefits from the discreet presence of the double bass and the more equally balanced writing in the chordal sections, in divisi.
