Menuetto (accordion)
Work for solo accordion by Martin Lohse dedicated to Bjarke Mogensen
Score, parts and performance
The work is published on UE Universal Edition: Direct link
Preview (full score): Universal Edition
Recording
Menuetto
Mobile
- CD/vinyl release with works for solo accordion dedicated to and performed by Bjarke Mogensen
- Release date: 11 Aug 2015 at Royal Danish Academy of Music
- Record label: Gateway Music
Menuetto
On the Path to H.C. Andersen
- CD recording performed by Hanzhi Wang (solo accordion)
- Release date: 23 Aug 2018 at Royal Danish Academy of Music
- Record label: Naxos
Videos
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Versions
The work is orchestrated in 5 versions.
Info
Composer Martin Lohse
Title Menuetto
Work number W.27b.5
Composition year 2008/2014
Movements 1
Duration 6.5 min
Genre solo work
Number of instruments 1
Instrumentation solo accordion
Score notation computer (Sibelius)
Pages 9
Free score yes
Recording type cd
Musical styles and elements modal, melodic
Program note
English
Menuetto
for accordion solo
The score is in exact pitch, and the proposed registers can be changed according to room and instrument etc.
Menuetto(2008-14) is dedicated to Bjarke Mogensen.
Menuetto has a longer history: It started as a menuet movement in 8 momenti mobile (2008) for saxophone quartet and was recomposed in 5 momenti mobile(2013) for accordion duo and piano trio, and finally found its current form for solo accordion in 2014.
It is, together with the arrangement of Liszt’s Liebestraum(2006) for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, the first works using “rhythm across harmony” which later developed into the composition technique mobile, where different musical layers, independent in time and rhythm, is connected by a simple sequence of major thirds.
Martin Lohse 2014
Danish
Menuetto
for akkordion solo
Partituret er ikke transponerende, og de noterede registre kan skiftes alt efter rum, instrument osv.
Menuettoer dedikeret til Bjarke Mogensen og har været en del omkring før at det fik sin nuværende form: Det lagde ud som en menuetsats i saxofonkvartetten 8 momenti mobile (2008), blev rekomponeret i 5 momenti mobile(2013) for akkordionduo og klavertrio, for til sidst at få sin endelige form for soloakkordion i 2014.
Værket er, sammen med mit arrangementet af Liszt’s Liebestraum(2006) for clarinet, violin, cello og klaver, et af de første værker hvor jeg benytter”rytme på tværs af harmonik” som senere udvikler sig til kompositionsteknikken mobile, hvor forskellige musikalske lag, uafhængige i tid og rytme, forbindes af en simpel følge eller sekvens af store tertser.
Martin Lohse 2014
Performances
All versions of - Menuetto
Salone degli Stemmi, Castelfidardo, Italy
Thursday 29 September 2022, 18:00
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Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Lisbon, Portugal
Wednesday 4 March 2020, 19:00
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Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco, Copenhagen, Spain
Tuesday 21 January 2020
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Carnegie Hall, New York, United States
Monday 22 October 2018
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Salão Nobre da Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal
Saturday 10 February 2018, 21:00
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... further results==Reviews==
All versions of - Menuetto
Expert reviews
... Lohse’s triptych Passing begins with a similarly circling if almost marionettishly pulsing allegro section. The steady, moonlit waltz that follows is deliciously ominous; the concluding variation is 180 degrees the opposite until that same resonance is artfully interpolated amidst the starry, flitting optimism.
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- 17 October 2018 - Delarue
... Poignant reflection and tragic depiction infuse Martin Lohse’s ‘Menuetto’ and ‘The Little Match Girl’ (dedicated to Hanzhi Wang), while his post-minimalist ‘Passing’ series forms adventurous mobiles of dancing light...
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- 1 October 2018 - ArkivMusic
We’re not often taken aback in the Review Corner (at least not in a good way) but such an event has occurred with this new programme of accordion music...
...The best recommendation is that we managed to write this down fairly quickly, being immediately taken with it, but have contained playing the CD since (and on and on). A delightful collection of music.
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- 20 September 2018 - Jerobear
User reviews
... All I can say is "Wow!", and I hope this recording receives the wide exposure and accolades it deserves.
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- 10 October 2018 - Julie Lamoureux
List of solo works
- Silenzio (cello) (2003)
- Silenzio (viola) (2003/2010)
- Silenzio (violin) (2003/2010)
- 6 preludes (organ) (2003)
- 6 preludes (accordion) (2003/2013)
- 6 preludes (piano) (2003/2013)
- Intermezzo - B.a.c.h. (piano) (2005)
- Nocturne (piano) (2007)
- Nocturne (oboe, cello and piano) (2007/2009)
- Menuetto (accordion) (2008/2014)
- Cadenza (accordion) (2010/2012)
- Hymn (carillon) (2009)
- Moto immoto (accordion) (2009/2011)
- Passing (accordion) (2011-12)
- Passing (organ) (2011/2012)
- Turn (piano) (2011)
- Silenzio (accordion) (2003/2012)
- Momentum (accordion) (2014)
- Match Girl (accordion) (2015)
- Seasons (accordion) (2015-16)
- Late Spring (accordion) (2016)
- Summer Storm (accordion) (2016)
- Autumn Rain (accordion) (2015)
- Winter's Tale (accordion) (2016)
- Fast Track (organ) (2017)
- The Dying Child (accordion) (1998/2014)
- Three pieces - Prelude, nocturne and serenade (piano) (2017-18)
- Prelude (Three pieces for piano) (2018)
- Nocturne (Three pieces for piano) (2018)
- Serenade (Three pieces for piano) (2017)
- Encircled (accordion) (2018)
- L'eau (guitar) (2019)
- Til Ofelia (piano) (2020)
- Sand drifting (oboe) (2000)