Friedrich Cerha
4 Paraphrasen
Duration: 11'
Dedication: für Heinz Holliger
Instrumentation details:
oboe
violoncello
piano
Cerha - 4 Paraphrasen for oboe, violoncello and piano
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Friedrich Cerha
Cerha: 4 ParaphrasenOrchestration: für Oboe, Violoncello und Klavier
Type: Partitur und Stimmen (Sonderanfertigung)
Friedrich Cerha
Cerha: 4 ParaphrasenOrchestration: für Oboe, Violoncello und Klavier
Type: Studienpartitur (Sonderanfertigung)
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When I have previously used quotes in my work, they have often created allusions that only I can understand. In my Four Paraphrases for oboe, cello and piano, written to a request by Heinz Holliger for a specific programme, I have made my quotes clearly audible for everyone.
It was appealing to me, by combining the originals with new elements, to show another side – in my opinion an unexpected side – of the original material. In the first Paraphrase it is the B-minor Scherzo by Chopin, in the second the Rigoletto-arias by Verdi, in the third the well-known Humoresque by Dvorák, and in the fourth a mix of Johann Strauß, Offenbach, the Marseillaise, the Internationale and Lohengrin.
Perhaps the recognition of something distorted within the banal can be a source of pleasure, although it is very clear to me that by their technically proximity to my chansons from the 1980s they amount to a borderline case within my oeuvre.
Friedrich Cerha