
" Vabeni "
Lemoine Jobert
SÉLECTION 2015
- Nominated for : The Musical Composition Prize 2015
CREATION
11/19/2012, Lodz, Poland. Tansman International Music Festival - Fall Schola Cantorum Gedanensis, Orchestra Sinfonia Varsovia, Krystof Maratka (direction).
NOTE
From the time of the daybreak of the humanity, we notice the man's the desire to exceed death and to touch transcendence by creative acts.
Prehistoric art represents a treasure fascinating art expressions: an evidence of the limitless fancy of human mind which reacts to its own existence in an unexpected and innovative way.
Vabeni is the third part of a trilogy which draws inspiration freely from prehistoric art. A trilogy became a kind of "Symphony of the Old World" the first work of which is Otisk for symphonic orchestra and the second Zverohra for soprano and orchestrates. Otisk (2004) reflects the tones of the musical instruments of the Paleolithic. Zverohra (2008) reflects the birth of human language and of first vocal expressions. Vabeni (2009/11) is a synthesis of both previous concepts. This union is also expressed in three titles: Otisk ("Imprinted" in Czech, masculine name), Zverohra (in Czech, female name for "Game of animals"), Vabeni ("Attraction" in Czech, neutral name).
In the middle of the triptych domiciles the feeling of a prodigious beauty in front of the authentic expressions facing existence and which are liberated from the temporary tendencies of concepts of the "nice" of this or that civilisation. Precisely, this absolute freedom is the key of Vabeni.
The musical woof of work is weaved as a ritual lived real-time, as a ceremony the witnesses of which we are from start to finish. Six movements represent instants-keys which they cross in the course of work and that lean on six letters of title: v has b e n i.
The chorus is the soloist of work and its role is key. His character virtuoso sculpts plights by recalling archaic beings whose fossils rise from the dead and speak through the intense rituals.
The function of the text of the choral part is purely sound and not significant.
I devoted work to Vaclav Havel - posthumous, not only as a sign of recognition and of respect, but also as a footprint of the attraction of human creative force demonstrating the same desire to grab existence, so much prehistoric time as at present.
Krystof Maratka