Pas de deux for large orchestra (Ballet), op. 23a (1962)
I. Introduction - Adagio
III. quasi Cadenza - Presto piu mosso
IV. Conclusion
Première:
November 2, 1962, Oldenburg, Staatstheater
Choreography: Horst Müller
/ Dancers: Hanneline Morá and Horst Dobirr
Orchester des Oldenburgischen
Staatstheaters / Albert Grünes
Fotos
of the premiére: Foto
1 Foto 2
Instrumentation: 3.3.3.3 - 4.3.2.1 - Timp., Perc., Hrp., Strings
Duration: 13 Minutes
Publisher:
Verlag: N. Simrock Berlin-London (Boosey & Hawkes)
Score
EE 5331/ ISMN M-2211-2122-6
 | | | |
| I. | II. | III. | IV. |
Video: Works by Hummel on youtube
The
ballet Pas de deux for large orchestra, lasting just about 15 minutes,
was written in 1962 as a commission for the Oldenburg State Theatre and had its
world première there in the same year.
The work brings together characteristic
dance scenes in the following order - Introduction - Adagio, Allegro, Cadenza
- Allegro molto and Conclusion:
a seven-tome series (modus) exploiting all the half-tones within the tritone c : f-sharp dominates the entire work and gives rise to the necessity of manifold variations of this basic material in the course of the of the different movements.
Bertold Hummel
Press
Fränkisches Volksblatt 29th May, 1978
Hummel's three concise, lively
dance scenes, succeed in creating particularly refined effects in sound, drawing
upon all the resources of his orchestral forces, strikingly superimposing complex
rhythmic layers, while the melodic content remains more sober.