Fantasia (1993) for violoncello and piano

Performances:
Palais Wittgenstein, Duesseldorf, Germany 15.05.96;
Musical Center  “Mishkenot Shaananim”, Jerusalem, 13.11.98,
live broadcast “Youth at the Center” by the Kol Hamusika national radio-channel
(w Zvi Orleansky – cello).

Publications: IMC

Recordings:
“Music from Ein Karem” (“The composers series”, MFEK 0202, 2003);
“Creative Composition“  The Music Book, Chapter 7, Treasure Productions 2005

This work could well be defined as a sonata. An energetic and resolute introduction with an ascending cello motive,
which is basically a main theme, collapses as it comes to its climax, falling into the lowest register.
After some attempts to renew the onslaught, it softens gradually and proceeds to the second theme,
sharply contrasting with the first.
Exquisite and smooth, it hover, as it were, over the tonality phantoms shrouded around it.
The middle section begins with a rather restrained quasi-fugato, based on the main theme.
Soon, though, it “splashes out” of the strict contrapuntal style and turns into a furious,
fantastic dance, shrinking back at some points, only to “let the genie out of the bottle” again
with the renewed force. The final “dynamic wave” leads to a recapitulation, powerfully reaffirming the initial theme.
A shadow of the second theme is heard again, and is swept over by the last wave of the “dance”.
It grows frenzied, and then suddenly drops down into a chasm.