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Small Ensemble
2026
Bass Clarinet
Mezzo-soprano
Viola
Violin
- Program Notes
- The Burial of the Sun is the second piece of the cycle Transmutation, a series of musical works inspired by the poetry of Luis Osberto Ressia (1931–2023). Luis was a deeply influential poet from my hometown in Argentina. His poetry explores a timeless, mythic imagery filled with angels, mirrors, nights, temples, and more. His style is extremely personal and unique, as is the universe he created. In this piece, I sought to bring one of Luis’s poems into sound. It is ultimately an attempt to recreate the poem’s world—its imagery and atmosphere—but above all a necessity to invent a new language: one that might plausibly be spoken by the mythical beings inhabiting Luis’s poetry. I find the poem extraordinarily beautiful, and I hope this piece does it justice. That said, as with any premiere, the work has not yet existed outside my—rather poor—musical imagination, which can never fully anticipate the sounding reality of performance. However—and with the help of printed program notes—the imagined musical result should move the audience to vividly imagine the poem: a vanishing memory of a timeless past, a procession of prisoners, and the burial of the sun in the sands of some desert.
- Recording Notes
Recorded at the Tessalonicki Concert Hall, April 26th, 2026.
- Performer Credits
- Camille Primeau (voice), Dácil Guerra (bass clarinet), Dimitrios Polisoidis (viola), Sophie Schafleitner (violin)