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Four Quartets

from Kugelf​ö​rmigkeit by Francesca Gaza

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    Comes in a beautiful gatefold card case, with artwork by Vieri Cervelli Montel based on Raffaello Sanzio's "Le tre Grazie" and a 24-page booklet in which the writing of the music and the thought behind it is explained as in a little book to read.

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Four Quartets is T.S. Eliot’s last and probably greatest work which he composed, against a background of imminent and actual world war, as meditations on the relationship between time and humanity. When I read Four Quartets, I felt that it was giving elucidation to my thoughts and questions, especially in the period of February until May 2020 during the lockdown caused by the global pandemic. The sensation of crisis, uncertainty and often intangible passing of time felt similar to the scenery depicted in Four Quartets and made me want to translate it into music, in both structural and emotional ways.

Eliot’s work, as the title suggests, has recurrent motives like in a music piece. The themes are stitched continuously through the poem in a sort of exposition, recapitulation and development.

“By a grace of sense, a white light still and moving.
Erhebung without motion, concentration
Without elimination, both a new world
And the old made explicit, understood
In the completion of its partial ecstasy,
The resolution of its partial horror.
Yet the enchainment of past and future
Woven in the weakness of the changing body,
Protects mankind from heaven and damnation
Which flesh cannot endure.
Time past and time future
Allow but little consciousness.
To be conscious is not to be in time
But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden, […],
Be remembered; involved with past and future.
Only through time, time is conquered.”

It is a poem that reflects on the process of composition and is quite laboured in thinking about the efficiency of language.
Where do you find timeless moments through time, that bring you to that revelation?


“Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past.”

Movements:

I Burnt Norton
II East Coker
III The Dry Salvages
IV Little Gidding

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from Kugelf​ö​rmigkeit, released June 25, 2021

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Francesca Gaza

Francesca Gaza (*1995) is an Italian/German singer, composer and pianist with romanian roots currently living in Basel, Switzerland.
As a bandleader, sidewoman and arranger she is working extensively in Jazz, Antique, Classical, Pop and Theater music and is part of both Basel's and Florence's vibrant art scene, regularly performing and collaborating with musicians from across Europe. ... more

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