Edition Schott

When Cuarteto Casals approached me with the idea of illuminating Beethoven´s quartets anew, you can imagine the many thoughts and feelings that where going through my mind : what a joy, what a great honor... What an intriguing head-scratcher ! How can you possibly shine a new light on something that is already perfect ? Weeks, months went by in search of a common ground between the Master and myself until I finally found it in the realization that a word lays "hidden" in the St.
John's hymn that gave musical notes their original name : 'Re, Sol, Ut, Io' (D, G, C, B in English music notation) Perfect ! "Resolutio" in Latin means both the resolution of a problem and the re-solution : a re-blend of many elements that will eventually coagulate to make something new. There was finally the melodic and a rhythmical canvas for my piece. On this canvas I wrote the story of a funny little contest, played on a sunny Mediterranean square, between street musicians and Cuarteto Casals just minutes before they are about to go on stage to perform Beethoven´s "Harp Quartet".
After all the characters, each in his own way, had the chance to tell their story, a gentle rain starts to fall, dissolving (Re-solving) again the music sheet to eventually leave us with just a white piece of paper for somebody else to continue the Work. (Lucio Franco Amanti) Instrumentation : 2 violins, viola and cello op. 74