FANÀRIKI
23′ – 2003
for ensemble
Fanàriki
Fanàriki is a contrast work in seven movements for cymbalum and instrumental ensemble. Articulated around “seven songs of war”, a poem by a contemporary Russian author, violence is experienced in an intimate way, we could add “childish” if this term referred to a dreamlike and ruthless world. The cymbalum is often echoed by a piano (an echo that sometimes precedes its source). From one mood to the other, we cross very different sound spaces: from silence to bursts, by vertiginous climbs, texts whispered and chanted in Russian, moments of an amazing calm.
title
Fanàriki means in Russian “little light”. This root is found in Greek, Arabic and then French in the word “fanal”.
set
1 cymbalum (with bow), 1 flute, 1 oboe + english horn, 1 clarinet si b, bass clarinet, 1 horn en Fa, 1 trumpet in do, 1 trombone, 1 piano, 2 percussions, 1 violin, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 double bass
percussions
1 bass drum, 2 tams a big and a medium, 1 gong in do (ss la porté clé de sol), 1 xylophone, 1 marimba, 3 suspended cymbals pt, grang, medium, 4 different metal pieces height, 1 chain, 2 timpani, 4 toms, 1 bass tom, 4 temple-block, 1 flexatone, 1 oriental req, 1 rattle
Text: from Seven songs of war by Ivan Silinski
Singing language: Russian
Premiere: December 3, 2003
Venue: Grenoble, France Festival des 38e Rugissants
By: Françoise Rivalland, cymbalum, instrumental ensemble Ars Nova, direction Philippe Nahon
November 22, 2007, Fanàriki, with the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Lorraine Vaillancourt.
Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec
Commissioned by Ars nova instrumental ensemble
Dédicacé à Catherine Peillon
Mention in memory of the children of Beslan
© ŠamaŠ éditions musicales 2013
Fanàriki (Seven war songs), Ivan Silinski
