Bryars, Gavin - The Porazzi Fragment

Series	Music Of Our Time
Pages	37
Publication Date	30 June 2001
ISMN	9790220119798 (M220119798)

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Commissioned by the Primavera Orchestra, and designed for the orchestra’s string formation, this short work for strings alone originates in an enigmatic, and un-published, 13 bar musical theme by Richard Wagner which appears to have been started during the period when he was composing the second act of Tristan und Isolde and finished shortly after the completion of Parsifal in Palermo, Piazza dei Porazzi.