Spectre Dance (from the "Paranormania"-Trio)

The second of the two dance-movements in the "Paranormania"-Trio, that (in reference to the slavic myths of the "Wila") depicts a group of ghostly figures gathering around a person and forcing them to dance and play themself into a breathless frenzy.

Featuring an upbeat syncopated dance-rhythm and a constant switch between two different themes and tempos, this ghostly dance steadily increases its emotional intensity, so much so that the instrumentalists even get "out of tune" at one point. After a short planned tuning-break a sort of anti-climax is reached at the end, where all the building-up culminates in an almost sarcastic, morendo-like fadeout, marking the collapse of the poor soul that ultimately danced themself to death.

Contains piano score + parts.