With the title of this composition Fever Fantasy Jorg Widmann refers to its musical air: 'I often feel Robert Schumann's melodic shape to be like the amplitude of a temperature curve: nervous flickering feverish an infinite number of small and large wave crests and troughs within the principal line.' The composer approaches this sound phenomenon with a setting for acoustic instruments. Nevertheless he succeeds in conjuring up very unusual sound spectrums. Over long sections the notation of this score mirrors the musical progressions containing no concrete pitches but detailed performance instructions instead. Slowly individual tones emerge from ascending pizzicato lines colourless sound surfaces sounds of harmonics roughened by tremolos and virtuoso clarinet scales tones that do not reveal their origin until the work ends: C - F - E - D sharp the beginning of Schumann's first violin sonata.

Publisher

Schott Music

Composer

Joerg Widmann

Instrument

Cello|Clarinet|Piano|Viola

Pages

132

ISBN

9790001136778

Stock code

ED9744

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