Clarinet (Clarinet) SKU: HL.50601846
For Clarinet. Composed by Cheryl Frances-Hoad. Instrumental. Concert, Recital. Softcover. Duration 2340 seconds. Cadenza Music #CAZCFHBOU01. Published by Cadenza Music (HL.50601846). UPC: 888680937065.
Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Bouleumata for solo Clarinet.
'Shortly before writing this piece I reached the final of a competition to compose the music for the Cambridge Greek Play, which happened to be Medea that year. Although I didn’t end up winning, Euripides’ play stunned me with its depiction of Medea, a woman who kills her two children to spite her husband Jason (who has just left her for a Corinthian princess). This piece was inspired by the wildly contrasting emotions that Medea experiences during a monologue immediately preceding the double-murder: that she can’t
possibly go through with it, but thatshe must in order to punish her enemies. In one passage she says “I understand that what I am about to do is wrong, but my thumos (emotion) has vanquished my bouleumata (ability to deliberate)'.' - Cheryl Frances-Hoad
