Quaderno I

The title “Quaderno” ironically academic in its meaning, that is a personal workbook, suggests a search for a personal musical language within a fearless exploration of the new glimmering vistas of musical expression that Grech‘s maturing creativity is opening up. The work is structured as a set of two pieces of a mysterious and indefinite character, which gives the listener a broad and profound look into the musical horizons being explored. The embryonic elements of each piece are then developed and defined to create two studies in which technique and expression meet or, as an illustrious admirer of Grech, Hans Keller said about this work, “Grech arrives at an expressive use of technique”. Therefore, the study can be seen as a sort of objectification or solidification, a working upon of the fluid material unearthed in its original amorphous form in the preceding piece. It also serves as a vehicle for Grech’s expressiveness as an individual in the context of the selfless search for the universal space explored in the pieces. This personal expressiveness reaches its height in the Finale, a fiery outburst of energy of a soul relishing the solace and freedom found in the new inner world just discovered.