

Luis Menacho
Cadenz [a Mozart]
Duration: 11'
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Cadenz [a Mozart]
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Cadenz [a Mozart] was composed as a tribute to Mozart and is based on a minimal, "monadic" fragment of the Adagio from the Piano Sonata 332 in F major (1783). It begins with an object in fixed, almost hexatonal, motionless registration, and from there starts a slow backward journey in search of that Mozartian fragment. The work is thus a journey into the past in order to rediscover the quotation towards the end of the work, which emerges ruinous; the Mozartian Adagio must then be played. What I have sought with this piece is a new subjective position for the listener of Mozart. At the same time, the concept of cadenza, from which it takes its title, is the time in suspense, that time of exception which precedes the re-exposition in classical concertos and where the singularity of the performer emerges - that is, what the pianist has to say as commentary in the concerto with orchestra.