| Product ID | SON00002791 |
| Composer | Gokul Salvadi |
| Duration | 05:50 min |
| Genre | Classical, Film/Musical/TV, Contemporary |
| Instrumentation | String ensemble |
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From Darkness to Light
| SKU | SON00002791 |
| Composer | Gokul Salvadi |
| Arranger | |
| Genre | Classical Film/Musical/TV Contemporary |
| Instrumentation | String ensemble |
| Free description | String Orchestra: This passacaglia explores the journey from darkness to transcendence. Moves slow, deliberate and heavy |
| Grade | 4 |
| Duration | 05:50 min |
| Year | 2025 |
Program Notes
String Orchestra: This passacaglia explores the journey from darkness to transcendence. Moves slow, deliberate and heavy
Passacaglia in F minor for String Orchestra
Duration: 6 minutes
Written for string orchestra (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Violoncello, Contrabass), the work unfolds at a deliberate Lento tempo, allowing the harmonic progressions to breathe and resonate with orchestral weight.
The composer employs a narrative structure across four acts:
- Act I (Variations 1-3): "Emergence from Darkness"
- Act II (Variations 4-6): "The Dance of Fate"
- Act III (Variations 7-9): "The Storm"
- Act IV (Variations 10-12): "Transcendence"
The work emphasizes sustained orchestral textures over individual virtuosity, creating masses of sound moves slow, deliberate and heavy on orchestrail weight by Modal harmonies and subtle chromaticism color the traditional F minor framework, while the unchanging ground bass provides an inevitable foundation beneath the evolving variations.
Suitable for advanced student orchestras through professional ensembles. The technical demands lie not in rapid passages but in sustaining intensity, managing slow tempo control, and creating cohesive sectional sound.