Description
Eclipsis explores the limits of the higher and lower registers of the piano in a very different way to that of Wolfgang Rihm’s Chiffre I (1982) or the Sonata II (1983) by Salvatore Sciarrino. One note on the extreme register of the piano that insistently repeats one rhythm that Aurélio Edler-Copes rediscovers as a Samba. Disparate Volante is pure energy. In this work there is the sensation of having superimposed the pulse of several Scarlatti sonatas with an exquisite refinement in articulation and dynamics. In Tortured Vinyl, Jesús explores the inner piano using resources that have already been explored by other composers, but introducing as well the results of his own explorations, from using an inner tube of a bicycle tyre to obtain sounds through friction as if it were a bow, through using a pencil sharpener or a tuning fork to obtain a jeté or glissando on the strings, as well as to imitate the sound of a sitar.