Hidayat Inayat Khan - Quartet (Opus 45) Third Movement (La Monotonia)

Beautiful composition by Hidayat Inayat - Khan. Perfomed by the Ars Floreat Quartet, recorded in 1997: M. Hollmannova, T. Kurita, T. Beckers B. Sánta. This arrangement of La Monotonia is composed in a classical ’Lied’-form and it describes the various episodes of a meditative invocation. The A-section starts with a ’call for prayer’ by the viola and is followed by a ’prayer walk’. The following B-section is the actual ’prayer’ aspect with various thematic elements, coming and going in a fugue style and sticking in the monotonous formula of a raga, where no harmonic modulation prevails. This B-section culminates in an appassionato representing ’victory’ over the self, emphasized by the classical western harmonic chords. The closing is a return to the A-section of the first bars, followed by a coda, all of which is expressive of the inner meditative call.