Cat No. JM68690
Price £56.60
Composer: Mario Burki
Category: TEST PIECES (Major Works)

Grade 4

Duration 9:00

This publisher rates grade difficulty as follows:

1 = very easy
2 = easy
3 = easy/medium
4 = medium/difficult
5 = difficult
6 = very difficult

The designation spheres was the geocentric (Earth-centric) idea that describes the firmament of concentric transparent shells at different distances which rotate at different rates and attached to which are the sun, moon and the stars.

The work, "Spheres", in German "cases," tries to describe this in music.

In the beginning the earth (earth's crust) is described with a powerful fanfare.

This is followed, after a tumultuous transition, the description of the emptiness of the individual spheres.

Tempo now rises, according to Pythagoras' theory that rotating spheres produce a "heavenly" music, a pulse and a melody.

The construction ends in a brilliant Allegro, which symbolizes that the although the spheres are independent individuals, from them the whole universe is a unit.

The work was dedicated by the Youth Music Ostermundigen the company Ziswiler Recycling Ltd in gratitude for the extremely generous financial support.