Compositions
Violet
for guitar
Violet (2006) 12′ guitar solo
scordatura: B G d g b e1
Premiere 25.5.2006 Festival „Julian Arcas“ in der Kathedrale von Almería,
digital album Wulfin Lieske | Guitar Works 2017
"Violet" was composed to mark a memorial performance for the famous guitar builder, Antonio de Torres with his legendary instrument "La Leona" from 1856. The concert was held on 25 May 2006 in the cathedral of his birthplace, Almeria (Spain).
The work unites the spiritual and romantic qualities of this instrument and develops an almost orchestral scape in four closely spaced sequences. Slowly spiralling the "Genesis" emerges from the highest heights to the bass B of the guitar scordatura, running into a lively "funky"-like " fencing bout and a virtuoso eruption of "heavy metal" (scherzo). Following the dramatic climax comes a contemplative and very variegated apotheosis, in which a melody soars up from distant ages.
The term "Violet (purple)" combines "viola" and "violence" and addresses the fluid transition in Romanticism from beauty to passion (the colour purple) and its escalation into destructive violence.
