3 Caprichos after Goya

Description

Dean's short pieces can be traced back to a concert project of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in 2003 at which a number of compositions were commissioned for the guitarist Jürgen Ruck on the basis of Goya's Caprichos. This famous graphic cycle of 1799 is a deeply moving portrait of a hopeless society. Dean gave the three scenes chosen by him (a humpbacked old man and his poor young bride, a daughter who has come into money and no longer recognises her destitute mother, a dancer pestered by three gallows birds) a musical form that is both sonorous and oppressive as well as pictorial and virtuoso - a fascinating dialogue between the arts.

Content

• Preface
• Rehearsal score (transposed and sounding):
• I. Que sacrificio!
• II. Dios la perdone: Y era su madre
• III. No te escaparás
• Performance score (transposed):
• I. Que sacrificio!
• II. Dios la perdone: Y era su madre
• III. No te escaparás