Andrew Schneider - Les Enchanteresses Dansantes, Op. 12
Dieter Flury - flute
Karel Dohnal - clarinet
Lukáš Polák - cello
"Les enchanteresses dansantes, Op. 12 (2018) was written as an entry for the Rapido Competition Contest, under a prompt to compose a 'suite of dances.' I was rather perplexed as to how I would compose a cohesive work in the form prescribed here, yet lasting no longer than the time limit of eight minutes. In the end, I opted to create a single long scène de ballet which goes in and out of different dance forms in a manner in which one might enter a different room of a house to find an entirely new color scheme or perspective. From a furtive opening which evokes a cubist “coven of woodland spirits,” whose silhouettes can be dimly perceived amidst lush foliage, the piece features an habanera, a samba, a vertiginous tango, and a waltz before an extended coda in the vivacious mold of the opening."
— Andrew Schneider
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