Litha Efthymiou
Iberian Refractions
Two violins
Duration, c.10'
Commissioned by New Music South West.
Premiered at Bristol St. George’s, September 2014
Iberian Refractions was written in response to a piece of Old Hispanic medieval chant, which gradually works its way into the music movement by movement. The chant melody infiltrates all aspects of the work’s foreground melodic structure, its harmonic backbone and its core inner detail, intensifying as the piece unfolds.
David Larkin & Iain Gibbs violins
Movement I
Movement II
Movement III
Two playing scores
Music example, I (pdf)