5(IV,V=picc).5(IV,V=corA).5(IV,V=bcl).5(IV,V=dbn)-8.4.4.2(dbtuba)-7timp.perc(5):cym(lg)/cym(sm)/ant.cyms/glsp;SD/Javanese.nipplegong/tgl;xyl/tam-t(lg)/5tom-t;vib/tam-t(sm)/BD;marimba/BD/tam-t-harp-pft/cel-str(16.14.12.10.8)
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Sikorski
‘Liszt's late piano piece Unstern! - Sinistre from 1885 follows a musical rhetoric that seems to have fallen out of time: freely sequenced melodic gestures that begin hesitantly and fall silent again, rhythmic traces without progression, music that finally fades out in indeterminate harmony.
My composition ÜBER UNSTERN, written in the Liszt Year 2011 for a large orchestra, revolves around this solitary piano meditation. Musical figures are recorded, ‘paused’, enlarged and overwritten: A continuation of thought in a counter-subjective language that attempts to formulate identification and distance, rapprochement and contradiction.’ (Peter Ruzicka, April 2011)