Compositions by Flo Menezes

[wp = world première]


Crase

2005-2006

Large orchestra and live-electronics.
Instrumentation:
4 flutes in C (3. e 4. also piccolo)
1 flute in G
1 solo-oboe
3 oboes
1 cor anglais
1 solo-clarinet in Bb
3 clarinets in Bb (3. also clarinet in A)
1 bass clarinet in Bb
3 bassoons
1 contrabassoon
6 horns in F
5 trumpets in C
3 tenor trombones in Bb
1 bass trombone in Bb
1 tuba in F
timpani
5 percussion players
piano (also celesta)
harp
strings (at least: 14–12–10–8–7)
+
electroacoustic sound diffusion
(6 loudspeaker system placed around the audience).

Realization: Studio PANaroma (Unesp).

Commissioned by the OSESP (Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo).

ca. 24'

wp: on December 13, 14 and 15, 2007, Sala São Paulo, São Paulo; OSESP, conducted by Victor Hugo Toro; and Flo Menezes (electronics).

Score Edition: OSESP.

World première (with the OSESP) (62,4 MB)

Performance of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich on November 9, 2012, conducted by Pierre-André Valade, during the Tage für Neue Musik Zürich 2012, which had Flo Menezes as Guest Composer (64,1 MB)

DVD-video: download of a compacted dmg-file with the disk image for burning a DVD and watching a full surround 5.1 version of the world première at a home theater (videoart: "Multiplicrasia" by Pedro Perez) (1,31 GB)

Video of the world première in December 2007 with the OSESP conducted by Victor Hugo Toro.

The same video at the Youtube Channel by OSESP.

Listen to the piece following it with its score clicking here!

Score of this work as PDF-file (3,6 MB)

The Crase score is published by Editora OSESP, São Paulo. Click here to access the score.


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