Fanfares

Year

Year

1994

Instrumentation

Solo Harpsichord

Duration

7'

Publication

Publication

Theodore Presser

Program Note


Program Note

Its brevity implied by the title, Fanfares comprises three movements with a total duration of approximately seven minutes. As fanfares, the movements are generally homophonic, rhythmic, and brightly colored, yet each movement has a unique profile of gesture, texture, and melodic shape.

Recording


I. Sonoro

0:00/1:34

II. Decisivo

0:00/1:34

III. Declamando

0:00/1:34

Score Sample


Press Quote

The kaleidoscopic colours of its central Decisivo movement and the dazzling scale-figures and massive chords of its Declamando finale revealed some of the harpsichord's most unsuspected timbral landscapes.

South China Morning Post