RUÉE (2002/2010)
RUÉE (2002/2010)
for clarinet
instrumentation: cl
duration: 8 minutes
première: July 24, 2002, Ticino Musica, Lugano, Switzerland
Fausto Ghiazza – clarinet
RUÉE
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Additional performances
Georg Wettin – clarinet
May 5, 2003, University of Music Hamburg, Germany
Georg Wettin – clarinet
September 7, 2020, Christuskirche Freiburg
Shizuyo Oka – clarinet
ABOUT
RUÉE (“Rush”) is a bravura piece for solo clarinet, in much the same vein as the roughly contemporary Cadenza per corno for French horn. One of Žuraj’s earliest solo compositions, RUÉE concentrates especially on the clarinet’s ability to realise breathtakingly rapid passagework with a minimum of effort, but also presents a wide range of extended techniques, such as quarter tone intervals and multiphonics. In addition, RUÉE places the traditional demands on the soloist’s musical finesse, requiring rapid and often violent changes in dynamics, playing very long phrases in one breath, and simulating polyphonic textures via dynamics and agogical emphasis.
Alwyn Tomas Westbrooke
