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Uri Brener

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Sonata for Violin and Piano Nr.2 (2021)

The Second Sonata for violin and piano in E minor was written as a tribute to the neo-romantic tradition, with the central tonal axis existing alongside many other different colors, both polytonal and atonal. Motifs of the first movement resonate with those characteristic of Rachmaninoff, the last of the late romantics. The second movement, much in a spirit of “De Profundis” (“Out of the depths”)  is a type of monody that strives to reach out from the lowest register to new heights each time only to collapse to the bottom again, all this without any harmonic foundation. Only in the coda is the violin freed from the force pulling it down and the melody soars to the highest notes that are almost inaudible to the ear. The overall stylistic “gesture” of the movement is definitely neo-romantic, but the color is dissonant, almost dodecaphonic. In the third, final movement, on the other hand, the E minor scale returns to be the tonal center in a kind of sweeping dance (“the dance of death”) that sometimes moves away and refines and sometimes approaches and threatens. The movement was originally written as an independent piece for violin and string orchestra commissioned by the Tibor Junior International Violin Competition in Switzerland.

Per formances: 23 December, Ron Baron Hall of the Stricker Conservatory, Tel-Aviv, world premiere with Hadas Fabrikant (v-no) and Einat Fabrikant (p-no) as a part of the Israeli Music Days

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