Commissioned by and dedicated to Lore Amenabar-Larrañaga
Instrumentation: solo quarter-tone accordion
Duration: ca. 5′
Recordings
Lore Amenabar-Larrañaga: Ispilu (Divine Art Ltd.) Album in Spotify
Program Note
Microtonal works often present the ‘new’ harmonies at a slow or moderate pace to give the listener enough time to adapt to the unusual intervals, thus sometimes forgetting a bit of rhythmic drive. I was delighted to get a commission from wonderful musician Lore Amenabar-Larrañaga for her newly designed quarter-tone accordion. Knowing her fantastic skills and musicality, I decided to write her a frenetic toccata L’eaurelle (2023) featuring additive rhythmics. But, despite my intentions of writing only fast music, I could not avoid inserting a slow introduction, which presents the work’s harmonic point of view to the 24edo. The name, L’eaurelle, is a wordplay between Finnish and French, which tries to catch the spirit of the fast-flowing music while making clear the piece is written for Lore.
Past performances
Oct 25 Lore Amenabar-Larrañaga Washington DC, Spanish Embassy (US)
Oct 21 Lore Amenabar-Larrañaga New York, NYU Steinhardt (US)
Aug 30 Lore Amenabar-Larrañaga London, Royal Academy of Music (GB)
Jul 1 Lore Amenabar-Larrañaga Heitersheim (DE)
Jun 29 Lore Amenabar-Larrañaga Biel (CH)
Jun 28 Lore Amenabar-Larrañaga Bern (CH)