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Re: What movement to take off from Finzi Bagatelles

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2018-10-01 15:08

When I first encountered this piece, I was very young – around 12, I suppose – and I rather naively made the verbal association between 'Forlana' and the word 'forlorn'. The result was that I underlined the 'sad' aspects of the piece. That's not to say that I don't agree that those aspects are there; but they're not in the title.

I'd say it quite often happens that there's a tension between two or more aspects of a piece of music, or a piece of poetry, say. (In the case of poetry in verse, two obvious ones are metre and meaning.) Overcommitment to one of those aspects unbalances the situation.

I'd say I did this in my youth. I was trying to correct a possible performer imbalance (probably not yours) by pointing out the sense of the title in this case.

The sadness is in the harmony, isn't it? You don't need to add to it.

Tony

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