general information

composition date
2011
duration
20 min
editor
Hips Road Edition

type

Chamber music (2 violins, viola, cello)

detailed formation

violin, second violin, viola, cello

observations

Présentation de l’éditeur : A trip through an Alchemist’s laboratory. A seance invoking angelic orders. Virtuosic lyricism, numerology, prayers, canons, contrapuntal complexity, alchemical procedures (distillation, calcination, crystallization, sublimation, purification, rotation) and the ghost of a fugue.


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