Brian Field - Three Passions for our Tortured Planet II. Glaciers

Glaciers is the second of the "Three Passions for our Tortured Planet", work with which Brian Field wants to raise awareness about the effects of global warming that we are suffering.

This piece, clearly influenced by musical impressionism, tries to evoke a cold and calm atmosphere at the poles of the earth. This atmosphere will change as various melodies and various thunderclaps are played, which make us think of the collapse of glaciers under the heat of the sun.

Finally, everything returns to the cold and calm atmosphere of the beginning.

In the author's own words:

"The second movement (“...glaciers...”) is a distant, stately movement that depicts the enormous ices on earth’s poles.

These slow, ponderous moments are sporadically interrupted by rapidly falling, thundering episodes, depicting the shearing of the glacial ice with ever-warming temperatures."

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Enjoy Glaciers performed by Carlos Marín Trigo: