Premiere of Not just limescale

Duration: ca. 8'

Inspired by the Grotta del Vento - a cave in the Apuane Alps Nature Reserve with stalactites and stalagmites, flowstones, and small underground lakes. The formations are deposits of calcium carbonate into limestone.

The sight is hard to imagine...

I could see it all starting with just a drop of mineral-rich water, ancient beings could have been floating past its walls, villigers hoped to find treasures and distroyed hundreds of thousands of years old deposits, and the unbelievable beauty that it is today.

Instrumentation:

Oboe / Cor Anglais

Clarinet in Bb/ Bass Clarinet

Horn

Violoncello