In the Mood
When written music sounds spontaneous
Even when every note is fixed, music can appear unpredictable: impulsive, contradictory, capricious. This programme brings together works in which a sense of spontaneity emerges from strictly notated music.
Two sonatas by Ferdinand Rebay, the Sonata in D major and the single-movement sonata, form the centre of the programme. His music moves between formal clarity and inner expressiveness, between controlled structure and abrupt turns. My recording of the D major Rebay sonata presented here offers an insight into this aesthetic tension.
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The Rebay Sonatas are complemented by works that explore the idea of the capriccio in different ways: as a virtuosic gesture, an ironic comment, or a sudden expression of mood. Joaquín Rodrigo’s Invocación y Danza combines ritual severity with eruptive moments, while caprices by Giulio Regondi, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Luigi Legnani play with expectations and deliberately challenge formal conventions.
A brief joint listening preparation opens a moment of heightened attention, allowing musical impulses and personal perception to meet. In this way, written music can be experienced as surprisingly free and spontaneous in the moment.
