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SANCTA SIMPLICITAS

Simple things eagerly get complicated, but after complications are resolved, things are not that simple any more

Sancta Simplicitas


Sancta Simplicitas - suite like composition for guitar and chamber instruments. First performed and recorded live by Etbin and the chamber instrumental ensemble Ante Portas in KUD France Preseren, Ljubljana, June 3rd 2009.

Sancta Simplicitas (2009) is a musical journey through time, whose only purpose is not in passing away as we dry up along with our ways of perception. As in previous suites such as the composition Modus Vivendi (2005), both in the selection of musical instruments, and in the structure and compositional approach, Etbin flirts with the ritual 'discontinued operations'. Yet this does not refer to certain stylistic periods of history, nor to local exotic archives, but rather to Etbin’s continued recovery of "shrivelled and faded substances" in the life of music, which used to mean much more than anything we fancy today.


Tracks

  1. Al tempo dei tempi I, II, III, IV (guitar, oboe, cello)
  2. Anatema (guitar, oboe, French horn, violin, cello, tubular bells),
  3. Dremez (guitar, oboe, cello)
  4. Karolan iz Istre (guitar, soprano and alto recorder)
  5. Nikoli naokoli (guitar, cello)
  6. Ta kraj (guitar, oboe, French horn, violin, cello, drums)
  7. Zelezna cesta
  8. I. Postaja (guitar, oboe, French horn, violin, cello)
    II. Od tod (guitar, oboe, cello)
    III. Sila (guitar, oboe, cello)
    IV. Tja (guitar, oboe, cello)

Cast

Participants in the premiere performance (2009) Etbin Stefancic Edi - classical guitar and ensemble Ante Portas cast: Eva Jurgec - oboe, alto recorder, Marijana Gregoric - violin, Primoz Zalaznik - cello, Sabina Magajne - French horn, Zala Bezlaj - soprano recorder, darbukha and guest Joze Bogolin - tubular bells