2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets (also piccolo trumpet), 3 trombones, bass tuba, 14 violins, 12 second violins, 10 violas, 8 cellos, 6 double basses
Palimsesto means to write or paint something anew on a page or a canvas on which something has already existed. … I used this process on a piece which I had composed back in 1956. Of this score, I left only the formal structure intact. Over it I laid sound surfaces of various dynamic densities, resulting from my experience during the nearly 50 years spent composing since then. Hence, Palimsesto is a “new” score in which the “old” elements can still be heard, depending on where we focus our eyes or our ears.
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