Texes de Sally Potter.
oboe, clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, piccolo (also 2 flutes, alto flute), English horn, bass clarinet, celesta, strings
États-Unis, Minneapolis
Dawn Upshaw : soprano, Minnesota Orchestra, direction : Alan Gilbert.
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Night of the Flying Horses starts with an Yiddish lullaby that I composed for Sally Potter's film The Man Who Cried, set to function well in counterpoint to another important music theme in the soundtrack: Bizet's Aria Je Crois Entendre Encore, from The Pearl Fishers. In her film Sally explores the fate of Jews and Gypsies in the tragic mid-years of the 20th century, through a love story between a Jewish young woman and a Gypsy young man. The lullaby metamorphoses into a dense and dark doina (a slow, gypsy, rubato genre) featuring the lowest string of the violas. The piece ends in a fast gallop boasting a theme that I stole from my friends of the wild gypsy band Taraf de Haïdouks. The theme is presented here in a canonical chase between two orchestral groups.
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