Sphren (Study Score) — Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books

With his orchestral cycle Sphären (“Spheres”), composer York Höller created a work that draws together the artistic and personal experiences of the past decades as if into a focal point. Spheres consists of six sound images of various character of which the first five were written between 2001 and 2005; after the death of his wife, Ursula Höller-Heidemann, in January 2006, Höller added the sixth, concluding movement and dedicated the work with love and gratitude to her memory. With the associative naming of both the cycle and the individual movements, the composer brings into play an evocativeness at the title level that in various ways mirrors some of the stimuli and impulses of the work's genesis, yet transfers this web to a super-personal level, where it functions detached from Höller's person as the foundation for communication with the audience.

“A beautifully sounding 40-minute kaleidoscope...We heard (and saw) in the phrases and shapes of the Wind Game the dust or the leaves creating a stir, and enjoyed in the pizzicato study of Rain Canon how the water dropped, splashed or hit the metal. In Firework, a catapult of embers raged, while in Earth Layers you could have sworn that blocks were forming, shifting and piling up on top of each other. And beyond all these individual sensations, the magic Spheres were spreading radiance, enigma and debauchery.” (Gerhard Bauer, Kölner Stadtanzeiger, April 9, 2008)

Product details

• Format / Medium: Softcover
• Series: Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books
• Pages: 158
• Dimensions: 11.8 × 9.0 × 0.4 in
• Weight: 20 oz

Boosey & Hawkes — historic British publisher of Stravinsky, Britten, Copland, Bernstein.

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