| Composition Year | 2012 |
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| Genre Categories | Sacred cantatas; Cantatas; Religious works; |
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| Work Title | The Last Temptation of Jesus Christ |
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| Alternative. Title | |
| Composer | Sisca, Todd Michael-Michael |
| Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | Op.1 No.1 |
| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | ITS 1 |
| Key | G-sharp minor |
| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 2012 |
| Librettist | composer |
| Language | English |
| Dedication | Dedicated to Todd's Dad @ Christmas 2012 |
| Average DurationAvg. Duration | 4 minutes |
| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Modern |
| Piece Style | Modern |
| Instrumentation | Coloratura soprano, Male contralto, counter-tenor, bass, modern concert grand piano |
This is Todd Michael-Michael Sisca's entirely original musical setting of the Last Temptation of Jesus Christ. The text is also Todd Michael-Michael Sisca's entirely original conception, as well.
This piece was originally begun in 2004-2005 as a Prelude fore the left-hand-alone...It was further revised years later and completed for publication in 2010 as Todd's "Self-Portrait-Etude #1 in G-sharp-minor (Op.1, no.1)".
In December of 2012, Todd then added to the piano-part an original text and voices depicting Mary, Jesus, and Satan at the time of The Last Temptation [as the composer conceived the story, that is].
The piece demands a coloratura-soprano of appreciable-virtuosity to pull-off the MAGICAL-MUSICAL-MOMENT when Mary quotes from the Catholic Chaplet of Divine Mercy.
The composer sometimes performs (live in recitals) this piece exactly as the piano-part is written as his "Self-Portrait-etude #1 in G-sharp-minor for left-hand-alone (Op.1, no.1)"...Pianists of romantic, virtuosic, and cantabile inclination - [in the manner of Chopin, Liszt, and Rachmaninov] - may absolutely perform this work as a solo piano composition written for left-hand-alone...
...AUDIENCES ARE ALWAYS STUNNED BY IT'S BEAUTY, DRAMA, ORIGINALITY,LEFT-HAND-VIRTUOSITY, AND PIANISTIC SONORITY.
