¨Mind the Gap!¨ is an overture for
orchestra, written in 1997. It was inspired by a visit to
London, which also reflects by its title; the wellknown
announcement heard on the underground stations. The musical
ideas deals with big gaps between highest and the lowest
registers of the orchestra. Somewhere in the music a
quotation from Purcell´s ¨Funeralmusic to Queen Mary¨ is
also heard, as a tribute to the great composer who has the
most touching epitaph (in Westminster Abbey): ¨Here rest
the earthly remains of master Henry Purcell, whose music is
only imposed by the place where his soul now rests¨(free
recalled from my memory). There is also a reminiscence from
the music of his time in the gigue rythms of the strings.
Listen with excerpts from the
score