Jury's reasoning With the violin concerto Double Portrait, the prizewinner has created a personal, solid and richly faceted work with a strong, inherent dramatic power. The musical form is cyclical and is carved out in a dense fabric of seven interconnected movements, all named after the titles of a poem cycle by WH Auden. The electronics respond to the soloist's […]
/ 01/04/2014 / codexWith the violin concerto Double Portrait, the prizewinner has created a personal, solid and richly faceted work with a strong, inherent dramatic power. The musical form is cyclical and is chiseled out into a dense tissue of seven interconnected movements, all named after the titles of a poem cycle by WH Auden. The electronics respond to the soloist's own material, and a dramaturgy arises in which the electro-acoustic voices develop a network of additional events that together create a subtle double portrait of the violin. The expressiveness of the sound masses and the poetic play of lines speak directly to the listener in an artistic form that thereby completes a musical line in the composer's production. The work was commissioned by IRCAM, Radio France Musique and the Ultima Festival.