Super ‘Stella’

2015b

Clarinet, two violins, viola and cello

3'52

For the Bennevitz Quartet and Harry-Imre Dijkstra

 

On the hymn ‘Ave maris stella’. Third movement of the Super Suite.
This is a true ‘fusion’ version of that beautiful melody, the tune first being presented in a kind of funky klezmer guise but gradually evolving (backwards, as it were) to its original shape – history being the ‘guiding star’.
This is Dufay’s version:


Mine is of course different:

Super Suite: II I- Super ‘Stella’