Caída lenta

Caída lenta is part of a broad cycle of works inspired by poems written for the occasion by Colombian artist Juan Diego Bustos Moreno. These Caídas (Falls) explore bodies in motion, the fragility of moments, and the fleeting speed of musical ideas.
Following Caída libre for the Münchner Philharmoniker and Caída sin rumbo for piano four-hands, Caída lenta draws its inspiration from a tragic event we witnessed, powerless, from the window of a Parisian apartment: the suicide of a young man in the building across the street. The fall of his body, the commotion in the street, the family’s cries of despair, and the tragic absurdity of the moment resonated deeply with the newly composed poem.
A Requiem for an Unknown, the score is interwoven with William Byrd’s Ave Verum, a poignant choral work on the theme of death—a hymn to the text of the Elevation, a prayer on the suffering of the body. Here, the choral is punctuated by instrumental falls, orchestral reveries on matter, the intangible, and the immaterial.