Year: 2003 | Type: Four-movement work for string quartet | Duration: ca. 13' 30''
This piece was initiated in August 2002, shortly before the staging of a theatrical adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, for which I had composed incidental music. This connection influenced both the title and the names of the four movements: Tenebrous, Ludicrous, Mysterious, and Anxious. The piece is also influenced by the music of Bernard Herrmann, which I discovered around that time.
Notes:
This work premiered in August 2008, at the Lukas David Festival in Lima, Peru.
The video linked above corresponds to a performance of the first and fourth movements in the foyer of the Grand National Theatre, by María Elena Pacheco (violin), Meriline Rivero (violin), Daniel Saens (viola) and Renzo Jiménez (cello).