… Per Angusta echoes my first work ever created Ad Augusta. The latter praised the virtue of perseverance and will. Recently though, I faced the death of one of my friend, Stefan Gräub, along with the sickness of some people in my circle. Thus I was exposed to the limits of the will. Ad Augusta means “to a high positions, to greatness”, but to manage it, to reach the summit, you have to go “per angusta”, which means through difficulties. The work comprises many parts that are defined by their tonality. These parts can be repeated but always keep the same signification.

D minor describes the way life goes ever on, sometimes mysteriously (like at the beginning of the piece) and more often in a wild and unforeseeable way. It seems like nothing can stop it even if all those who made our life worthy and valuable passed away.

As soon as G minor appears, we can hear the theme of the acceptance of what goes beyond the power of our will. To find the peace, we have to accept the existence of death and sickness. Very often though, we are not prepared to face so much pain. This is why a dissonant cluster is played by a strong tutti with violent rhythms. Sometimes too, anger becomes sorrow, what I intended to represent with the transitions from D minor to B minor or with the bitonality.

These transitions lead to some despair (in B minor): life goes on but we feel lost without the ones we love. It seems like we are trapped in a vicious circle. To go out of this circle, we have to be brave and strong. This is the reason why the development in B minor becomes a little bit more epic.

E minor offers us a new way. However, despite our courage, we are not ready for the acceptance yet. We have to wait until G minor comes back because it’s the main tonality of the acceptance theme. A tuba quartet brings the theme and the tonality back, which is a tribute to my friend Stefan who played the euphonium. We are now free to accept, even though I wanted to put an ambiguity in the final chord. Indeed as I see it, the pain never disappears totally. For this reason, we can understand the last chord at the same time as major and minor.

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