Triptych - Trio

QUANTUM MUTATA (1981)

The style of Pawlu Grech’s recent music combines in an unusual fusion a macro-structural approach based on contrasting textures and modes of playing (such as various forms of vibrato) and a micro-structural density of motivic development, which is usually absent in music of predominantly textural orientation. Much of the work consists of further transformations of material from Grech’s two DUOS (for flutes and piano and for violin and piano).

It is continuous, but fall into four main sections. The first and longest begins with held notes and slow vibratos, but is predominantly fast and dense. A long ritardando for piano solo leads to the second: a slow duet for violin and alto flute, interrupted and later accompanied by the piano. There follows a pair of cadenza-like solos, for violin and for flute; and the last section, again introduced by the piano, is again predominantly fast and dense, and incorporates a brief hocket-like passage.

Parts included in the pdf: Flute, Violin & Piano