"Exody was Birtwistle's first large-scale orchestral score since the Piano Concerto, Antiphonies, five years before. And, as Birtwistle explains, it takes up where Antiphonies left off, for it "opens with that very same yawning span of register with which the concerto ended. The very high note, then given on the piano, is not possible from any orchestral instrument except the violin, so the flautists are called on to blow down some very narrow organ pipes I've had made."
Birtwistle plotted Exody as "the central panel of an orchestral triptych which began with Earth Dances and will conclude with a new piece."
Extremes of register, jarring shifts of dissonance, and huge blocks of sound have been hallmarks of the Birtwistle style - an on-going exploration of tradition and a penchant for novelty simultaneously. In Exody, something similar occurs: a sense of time being both eternally stated but also eternally disrupted. Time is a concept which interests the composer. He chose the archaic word Exody because "it alludes both to a way out and a way in". Exody also has a pertinent subtitle - "Sequence for 23:59:59", or "the second before midnight"." [Duncan Hadfield - The Independent]
Here are the links to the 1st and 3rd pieces in the triptych: Earth Dances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVnpk...
and The Shadow of Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHQ7f...
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