George De Decker
Wit in Wit
- Type CD
- Label Antarctica
- UPC 0608917731224
- Catalog number AR 012
- Release date 07 June 2019
About the album
George De Decker wrote the aria WIT IN WIT (White in White) on commission for the piano recital of 14 November 2017 in the Witte Zaal in deSingel (Antwerp, Belgium).
After the performance by pianist Geert Callaert the relationship with the aria of Johann Sebastian Bachs Goldberg Variations became clear.
Bachs Goldberg Variations are canon, every pianist relates to this piece at one time or another.
A myriad of versions and arrangements De Decker has listened to and analysed, the ear a knife,
in every variation he cut in, looking for the razor-sharp core: what is the essence?
The key and the character of the original composition were preserved, the redundant was skinned until with every variation, only the sound skeleton remained.
The result is a new composition for piano solo and audiotape, but essentially WIT IN WIT is a landscape, a fragile relief of tone, sound and silence.
A note that resounds so long that it stretches into a panorama.
A dissonant that digs depth, and in that depth, rock formations take shape from tone clusters, the air filled with oscillating overtones. Sometimes a certain variation had finished for half a minute before the lack of sound attracted attention, so subtle. De Decker makes sound change into silence that is never empty, but in itself again becomes sound, designer and carrier of the music.
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11Aria
11:01 -
12Variation I
04:05 -
13Variation II
04:01 -
14Variation III
04:51 -
15Variation IV
03:30 -
16Variation V
03:38 -
17Variation VI
06:39 -
18Variation VII
04:49 -
19Variation VIII
07:09 -
110Variation IX
03:45 -
111Variation X
04:48 -
112Variation XI
04:24 -
113Variation XII
02:28 -
114Variation XIII
04:28 -
115Variation XIV
04:42 -
116Variation XV
04:13 -
21Variation XVI
04:11 -
22Variation XVII
02:35 -
23Variation XVIII
05:11 -
24Variation XIX
04:13 -
25Variation XX
04:54 -
26Variation XXI
04:32 -
27Variation XXII
04:45 -
28Variation XXIII
04:29 -
29Variation XXIV
05:34 -
210Variation XXV
05:07 -
211Variation XXVI
05:18 -
212Variation XXVII
04:43 -
213Variation XXVVIII
04:43 -
214Variation XXVIIII
05:26 -
215Variation XXX
05:12 -
216Aria (reprise)
11:14