Luke Bedford
Outblaze The Sky
Short instrumentation: 3 3 3 3 - 4 3 3 1 - timp, perc(2), hp, cel, str
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation details:
1st flute
2nd flute
alto flute
1st oboe
2nd oboe
cor anglais
1st clarinet in Bb
2nd clarinet in Bb
bass clarinet in Bb
1st bassoon
2nd bassoon
contrabassoon
1st horn in F
2nd horn in F
3rd horn in F
4th horn in F
1st trumpet in C
2nd trumpet in C
3rd trumpet in C
1st trombone
2nd trombone
bass trombone
tuba
timpani
percussion(2)
harp
celesta
violin I
violin II
viola
violoncello
contrabass
Bedford - Outblaze The Sky for orchestra
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Luke Bedford
Bedford: Outblaze The SkyOrchestration: für Orchester
Type: Studienpartitur (Sonderanfertigung)
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Work introduction
The title is a reworking of a phrase in D. M. Thomas’ ‘The White Hotel’ which I reread while composing this piece. I was especially interested in the dreamlike and highly charged poem near the start of the novel, which seemed, in my mind, to have certain parallels with the music that I was writing.
As it is only a short six minute work, I wanted to stick to one idea throughout and explore that. I imagined the piece to have a warmth and a certain haziness, and the result is that virtually every new pitch is scored with glissandi, harmonics, flutter-tonguing, tremolandi and molto vibrato. But the music is very slow throughout, and only properly ‘blazes’ in the final section.
Luke Bedford