Midday Prayers (from Life without Christmas)
(Tagesgebete) (1990)Liturgical text
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“Each composer apparently has a certain predilection for one timbre or another. I would not be honest if I did not count the clarinet amongst my favourite instruments. For this reason, this work was only composed thanks to the personal charm of the remarkable clarinettist Eduard Brunner.
When I think about the ‘Midday Prayers’, I feel a bit guilty towards both the interpreters and the listeners. The seemingly unlimited virtuoso possibilities of the clarinet, like those of the other instruments, are completely ignored by me in this work. This ignoring probably corresponds to the character of the work, but so does the desire to represent the sound of the clarinet differently this time, in order to approach more closely the sound of the alto flute that I so highly value.
I do not wish to say anything more here about everything else because I most profoundly appreciate one characteristic that God gave mankind: THE INDIVIDUAL PERCEPTION OF MUSIC.”
(Giya Kancheli)