MadUren malkoak (2016)
Data
For mezzo-soprano, Bb clarinet / bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano.
Duration: 7 min 30 sec.
Published at BabelScores / Paris
Work chosen for “World Music Days” Festival, (ISCM), in 2019. World-premiere in Estonia by Norrbotten NEO Ensemble from Sweden.
Work commissioned by the Department of Culture of the Basque Government
Commentary
This work has two movements.
The first is a slow movement where the voice has a main role, the role of a mother who sings to her child. The role of the ensemble is to accompany the singer and help her express different feelings: love, worry…
In the second movement the voice represents two different characters: a mother and a son, who speak to each other.
To differentiate the two characters, the mezzo-soprano sings with a white voice, imitating the voice of a child, and she sings with the voice which used at the first movement to represent the mother.
To help distinguish these two characters, two different voice registers are used and the mezzo-soprano sings different syllables.
In this part, the ensemble has a more active role, sometimes doing imitations with the voice, other times, playing alone in a virtuous writing …
The text used in the score is written in a language invented by the composer.