One of the seven
angels (2010)
Bass clarinet and computer
Durata approx. 10 min
Music by Stefan Klaverdal
This is a
meditation. In several related pieces using the same technique, I have
tried to maintain a sense of exaltation or extreme happiness, but to balance
them I wanted to compose a slow-evolving piece, a ballade. It is nevertheless
for me a very positive piece, although in a more introvert way.
The piece
relates to the quote from the Book of Revelation on the previous page (and in
the title), and is a free interpretation of it.
The piece was
composed to Mattias Eklund
First
performed by Mattias Eklund at Malm Academy of Music 2010
Duration: approx. 10 min
Revelation
21:9-14
One of the
seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came
and said to
me, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." And he
carried
me away in the
Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem,
coming down
out of heaven from God. It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was
like that of a
very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It had a great, high wall
with twelve
gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names
of the twelve
tribes of Israel. There were three gates on the east, three on the north,
three on the
south and three on the west. The wall of the city had twelve foundations,
and on them
were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Book of Revelation 21:9-14, New International
Version