In liquid... (accordion concerto, first version)
Accordion concerto by Martin Lohse
Contents
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Recording
1. movement
2. movement
3. movement
4. movement
Live-recording from Gladsaxe Musikpris 2009 by Bjarke Mogensen and Copenhagen Phil with conducter Lan Shui
Versions
The work is orchestrated in 8 versions.
Info
Composer Martin Lohse
Title In liquid...
Work number W.29
Composition year 2008
Movements 4
Duration 27 min
Genre orchestral music
Number of instruments +10
Instrumentation accordion and symphony orchestra
Score notation computer (Sibelius)
Pages 38
Free score yes
Published yes
First performance 7 Feb 2009
- by Bjarke Mogensen and Copenhagen Phil with conducter Lan Shui
- place Gladsaxe Musikpris 2009, Gladsaxe, Denmark
Recording type live
Musical styles and elements modern, expressive, concertante
Program note
In English
In Liquid... (2008)
In liquid... (accordion concerto, first version)
duration app. 27-28 min
- Andante semplice. Allegretto. Allegro. Poco vivace
- Andante. Allegro. Meno allegro
- Scherzo: Allegro molto e con brio. Andante. Moderato, Cadenza
- Allegro moderato, Andante cantabile e molto semplice, Andante cantabile e poco espressivo
The title especially relate to the liquid feeling of time.
Repetitions, sequences and patterns slowly changes between each other, displacement of the tempo by accelerating step by step or freezing the tempo in a nearly statical felling of time – maybe a feeling of long lost times, which lives on in our remembrance and is blending with our presence right now.
In Liquid... has been written to Bjarke Mogensen, and is a recomposition of the chamber work In liquid... (accordion and piano, first edition)
Martin Lohse 2008
In Danish
In Liquid... (2008)
In liquid... (accordion concerto, first version)
varighed ca. 27-28 min
- Andante semplice. Allegretto. Allegro. Poco vivace
- Andante. Allegro. Meno allegro
- Cadenza: Cadenza (accordion). Allegro moderato
- Andante cantabile e molto semplice. Andante cantabile e poco sostenuto. Andante più mosso ma molto simplice
Gentagelser, sekvenser og mønstrer ændres langsomt eller flettes ind og ud imellem hinanden, tempoer forskydes, bliver hurtigere og hurtigere eller fryser fast i en nærmest statisk tidsfornemmelse – måske en fornemmelse af en svunden tid, som lever i vores erindring, og som blander sig med vores tilstedeværelse her og nu.
In Liquid... er skrevet til Bjarke Mogensen, og er en genkomponering af kammerværket In liquid... (accordion and piano, first edition) Titlen betyder: ”I flydende...”, og den henviser især til den flydende fornemmelse af tid: Gentagelser, sekvenser og mønstrer ændres langsomt eller flettes ind og ud imellem hinanden. Tempoer forskydes; bliver hurtigere og hurtigere eller fryser fast i en nærmest statisk tidsfornemmelse – måske en fornemmelse af en svunden tid, som lever i vores erindring, og som blander sig med vores tilstedeværelse her og nu…
Martin Lohse 2008
Performances
All versions of - In liquid...
Concert Hall, Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen, Denmark
Wednesday 5 February 2020, 19:30
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Royal Danish Academy of Music - Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tuesday 19 October 2004
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Danish Radio P2, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tuesday 19 October 2004
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Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Monday 18 October 2004
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==Reviews==
All versions of - In liquid...
Expert reviews
... I don’t recall previously hearing any music by the Hans Abrahamsen-student Martin Lohse (b.1971) – painter and poet as well as composer – but I shall certainly be keeping my ears open from now on, since his 16-minute In Liquid... is unassertively lovely...
... Lohse knows how to caress the ear and stimulate the mind at the same time: In Liquid … is all the more touching for the understatement of its emotional burden. ...
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- 6 July 2012 - Martin Anderson
User reviews
As a part of this “flow” Lohse explores poly-tempi at several places in the score, calling for the accordion to accelerate while the orchestra remains at a constant speed to thrilling effect.
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- 8 May 2019 - Sue Leigh Waugh
In Liquid, another commission by Mogensen, is radically different. Martin Lohse's work is almost a study in slow motion. Lohse draws out every single note both from the ensemble and the soloist. The sensation is similar to trying to run underwater. And the enforced slowness of the composition makes the listener pay closer attention to the music as it passes by. An effective work, and one that completely removes the accordion from its popular roots.
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- 24 May 2012 - RGraves321
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- Awakening (2002)
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- Den Standhaftige Tinsoldat (2004)
- Ember (sinfonietta) (2008)
- In liquid... (accordion concerto, first version) (2008)
- In liquid... (accordion concerto, second version) (2008/2010)
- In liquid... (accordion concerto, string orchestra) (2008/2010/2019)
- Concerto in tempi (accordion and string orchestra or string quintet) (2010/2012)
- Moto immoto (symphony orchestra, second edition) (2009/2018)
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- Collage de temps (piano and sinfonietta) (2013)
- Collage de temps (piano duo) (2013)
- Lurid Light (1998)
- Concerto in G (recorder and baroque strings) (2018)
- Symphony in one movement (2020)
- Transition (accordion and orchestra) (2022)
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- Recall (small sinfonietta) (1968/1977/2015)
