TRANSFORMATIONS - Expansion Fugues, Interludes For Piano
Harold Blumenfeld
About this work:
TRANSFORMATIONS FOR PIANO, in Seven Movements. [1963]: Virtuosic work featuring fugues laterally mutating subjects. With Prelude and Interludes.
Early showpiece featuring fugues, double fugues with inverting, expanding, contracting, mutating fugal subjects.
SOUND BITE from recording by pianist Dwight Peltzer. Sample SCORE PAGES on hand on this site.......
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The Movements---
I. PRELUDE: melodic, dramatic, 3'....
II. LITTLE RONDO with SHIFTING CANON, 1' 12"....
III. FUGUE with EXPANDING SUBJECT. Thick strettos, 7'....
IV. PERPETUUM MOBILE, akin to II, 3' 30"....
V. INTERRUPTED INTERLUDE, 50"....
VI. SCHERZO FUGATO, 5', ferocious double fugue with multi-expanding, inverting subjects, virtuosic....
VII. POSTLUDE, 4'. Dramatic, multi-layered.
Year composed: 1963
Duration: 00:24:00
Ensemble type: Keyboard:Piano
Instrumentation: ,1 Piano soloist(s)
Instrumentation notes: Virtuosic early piano work with broad range of technical, expressive variety.
Intense fugues with mutating subjects, thick stretti; interludes bringing relief.
SOUND BITES, SCORE PAGES on site.