Ferneyhough: Dum Transisset (2007) w/ score

Brian Ferneyhough's recent Dum Transisset for string quartet with the score. Played by the Arditti Quartet.

I recommend also checking out the stunning 2010 Proms performance of this, posted by flammesombres here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p79fvudxBE

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[saladshootavvv]

Wow, never heard a Ferneyhough like this before. It says on Wikipedia that this work is based on "Elizabethan composer Christopher Tye's works for viol". Do you know how or in what sense he based it on it?

[p0lyph0nyXX]

@saladshootavvv It's pretty strikingly different, isn't it? There's a previous Tye-based work, O Lux, that actually quotes directly from the Tye work several times (most notably towards the end), as well as seeming to follow something of a similar structural trajectory as the Tye (not 100% sure on this technically though) -- I'd imagine something similar, if more hidden, is at work here, though I'd have to make a more intensive study of the Tye piece (particularly its score) to be more certain.

[flammesombres]

Wonderful, thanks -- and 13 minutes! Is this the end of Youtube's 10-minute restriction?

[p0lyph0nyXX]

@flammesombres Haha, indeed! Youtube's expanded the limit from 10 to 15 minutes (which I suspect really means 15:59, if the 10 minute limit is any precedent); making me feel a bit silly about a number of <15 minute movements I split in past uploads, but better late than never, I suppose.

[Thrash0Jazz0Assassin]

one of the best pieces by him I've ever heard

[NitramZiarreh]

Is this score available for download anywhere? I'm not a big Ferneyhough fan, but I saw the Arditti performing this piece live the other day and was blown away. It doesn't sound like Ferneyhough at all!

[allegramente5000]

@trees1 I felt the same when i heard the piece at the proms last year.On a few hearings for each, It comes across as a more daring,fresh piece than the 6th quartet.

[hdat770816]

THANKS FOR YOUR SHARING

[trees1]

The intial music idea at the 4th movemnet must be very rare in Ferheyhough's music. It looks he is embarking on a new boat.