Margarita Zelenaia
Piano Duo cycle
Year: 2001
Duration (in minutes): 18'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: piano
Publisher: Self-Produced
Description: Piano Duo cycle has two movements.
The idea of the 'Reflection'(#1) was to express through the music the reflection in many different meanings (inside and outside of us): simply an unclear water reflection, the reflection of dark and light thoughts, something like double (simultaneous) reflection from contrasting acts, etc…
In the second movement 'Antiphon' I used a very attractive idea of a dialogue and a contradistinction, a repetition and an imitation. The antiphon’ method has deep roots in a Greek tragedy, when two choruses gave their permanent comments to the events that happened on the stage. And the scale of the choruses’ emotional reaction was really huge: they were agreed and disagreed, they loved and hated, frightened and bowed, sometimes they even tried to talk down each other…