Mauricio Sotelo
Cuerpos robados
Short instrumentation: 3 2 4 2 - 4 2 3 1 - Pk Schl(4) Hf(2) - Str(12 10 8 6 4)
Duration: 15'
Dedication: con Patricia Kopatchinskaja
para Alfonso Aijón en su 80 cumpleaños
mit Patricia Kopatchinskaja
für Alfonso Aijón zum 80. Geburtstag
Sotelo - Cuerpos robados for violin and orchestra
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Mauricio Sotelo
Sotelo: Violinkonzert 1_Orchestration: für Violine und Orchester
Type: Studienpartitur
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Work introduction
Mauricio Sotelo breaks new ground with Cuerpos robados (“Stolen Bodies”) for violin, declaimer and orchestra in three groups. The composer says it “sounds like Sotelo but without flamenco.” Both harmonically and formally, the work explores new land; the composer expects something unusual of the violinist, namely to sing and play simultaneously in the second cadenza.
“The rhythmic structure is very complex,” says Sotelo. “It is based on a Spanish dance-rhythm – the bulera, an ostinato. I composed this voice part as if I were writing for an Indian tabla.”