Music archive entry

Three counterpoints in a free way: quasi preludio - quasi corale - quasi toccata. Quasi: almost. Not yet. Something that isn't yet definite - free forms that have no evident grammatical purpose - broken rules which can't deceive the flood of sounds.

The first movement begins almost low, almost whispered (once more, almost), as a trace of some memory. The voices come up to the surface of the piece and search for their own space in the light thickening of the musical material. The initial theme repeats itself, giving birth to a wait that takes a shape of its own and then dissolves with no solution in the final breathing. In the second movement the four voices are joined together without alternating, flow into the same plot without losing their own identity, laying down in a space soft and largo. The third movement begins with a dense and sustained contrapuntal section, which resolves and dissolves in a rapid flow of sketches of notes, determining once more "almost": a mention, an allusion, an unfinished story.