Beat Furrer
Time out 1
Duration: 16'
Instrumentation details:
flute, harp, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 violoncellos
Furrer - Time out 1 for flute, harp and strings
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Work introduction
The composer about his work:
Repetition - change
Goal-oriented - process-like striving constantly interrupted
Movement - hesitation - return again
Searching for a different continuation
Pictures of slowly changing surfaces - multi-layered - interlocking
"Ein Lied, das über das Ende des Liedes hinaus ein anderes Ende suchte..." (Kafka)
(A Song that beyond the end of the song is searching for a different end)
„... In Time Out, composed in 1995, attempts to progress in processes are constantly interrupted and return to the starting point. Most sparingly, flute and harp set their subtle accents into the tender tissue of the eight solo strings mostly treated in blocks..."
Gerhard Kramer, Die Presse - 6. 2. 1996