David Sawer
*14.09.1961

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David Sawer
Tiroirs | for chamber ensemble

Work Details
Year of composition: 1996
Scored for: for chamber ensemble
Composer: David Sawer
Instrumentation: 1 1 2 1 - 2 1 1 0 - perc(2), hp, pno, str(1 1 2 2 1)
Instrumentation details: 1(/picc/alto)·1·2(1/Eb/contl 2/contl)·1 - 2·1·1·0 - perc(2) - hp - pf(/cel) - strings(1 1 2 2 1)
Commissioned by: Commissioned by the Michael Vyner Trust for The London Sinfonietta
Duration (min): 12

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World Première
Location: Queen Elizabeth Hall London / Great Britain
Date: 15.02.1997
Orchestra: London Sinfonietta
Conductor: Paul Daniel
Work Introduction

"...a random phrase from which I drew images by distorting it, a little as though it were the case of deriving them from the drawings of a rebus;" (from How I wrote Certain of my Books by Raymond Roussel)

This piece was prompted by the literary techniques of the French surrealist writer, [...]

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“It was probably significant that the most satisfying piece of the weekend, Tiroirs, by David Sawer, should come from a composer who makes no concessions to popularism, but who has proved his credentials outside the new music circuit, as his various orchestral commissions (such as his 1992 [...]

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