Leo Chadburn, De La Salle (Violins) and De La Salle2
Instrumentation
Four violins
Duration: c.10 minutes | Written: 2001 revised 2024
Programme Note
At the time I wrote this, I was very interested in music that followed a strict process of some kind. So, De La Salle (Violins) systematically works its way through all the intervals (pairs of pitches) in a nine-note scale.
Listening decades after it was written, it now evokes the weather for me: clouds passing, rain falling sparsely, then heavily, then the clouds parting.
Besides the original score for four violins, there is a version for four recorder players, De La Salle2, which was prepared for The Flautadors, who have performed it extensively. That version achieves the eight-note chords used throughout the piece by having each performer play two instruments at once.
Live Performances
- Larissa O'Grady, Mira Benjamin, Chihiro Ono, Amalia Young, 12 October 2024, LSO St Luke's, London
Recording
Appears on the album The Primordial Pieces, performed by Angharad Davies, Mira Benjamin, Chihiro Ono and Amalia Young.
The version for four recorder players appears on the album Bavardage, performed by The Flautadors.
