Ver (guitar duo)

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Work for guitar duo by Martin Lohse

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Ver
In time

CD recording performed by Aros Guitar Duo: Mikkel Egelund Nielsen and Simon Wildau
Release date: 5 April 2024
Record label: Our Records: In time

Info

Composer Martin Lohse
Title Ver

Work number W.55
Composition year 2019

Movements 1
Duration 8.5 min

Genre chamber work
Number of instruments 2
Instrumentation guitar duo

Score notation computer (Sibelius)

First performance 23 May 2019

by Aros Guitar Duo
place Helsingør Teater, Den Gamle By, Århus


Musical styles and elements modal, melodic



Program note

English

Shimmering lights that gather in circles

The work was composed in 2019 and dedicated to Aros Guitar Duo.

It is inspired by the sprouting spring and the melody In vernalis temporis (In the spring time) by Morten Børup. One mood in particular in the original Latin text has inspired the rest of the music, here in free rewriting:

The rays of the sun
gathered as a wreath
in the drops of the morning dew

It is a literary image that in many ways describes the music well: A jumble of notes that unites and comes again, like circles of life that slowly grow and change.

In the work, the two guitars merge into one instrument, where different tempos and musical expressions meet and are united by one long melody that returns in a new light each time it is repeated, interrupted only by In vernalis temporis in the middle of the movement.

Duration approx. 8-8.30 min.

Martin Lohse 2024


Danish

Flimrende lys, der samles i cirkler

Værket er komponeret i 2019 og dedikeret til Aros Guitar Duo.

Det er inspireret af det spirende forår og melodien In vernalis temporis (Frydeligt med jubelkor) af Morten Børup. Særligt én stemning i den originale latinske tekst har inspireret resten af musikken, her i fri gendigtning:

Solens stråler
samlet som en krans
i morgenduggens dråber

Det er et litterært billede, der på mange måder beskriver musikken fint: Et virvar af noder der forenes og kommer igen, som cirkler af liv der langsomt gror og forandres.

I værket smelter de to guitarer sammen til ét instrument, hvor forskellige tempoer og musikalske udtryk mødes og forenes af én lang melodi, der vender tilbage i nyt lys hver gang den gentages, kun afbrudt af In vernalis temporis i midten af satsen.

Varighed ca. 8-8.30 min.

Martin Lohse 2024


Performances

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Aros Guitar Duo
Danish Radio, Copenhagen, Denmark
Friday 5 November 2021, 10:00
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Aros Guitar Duo, Farum Kirke 2020
Farum Kirke, Farum, Denmark
Sunday 8 November 2020
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Aros Guitar duo, 11. Sep 2020
, TBA, Denmark
Friday 11 September 2020
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Frederikskirken, Skåde 2020
Frederikskirken, Skåde, Denmark
Thursday 10 September 2020, 19:30
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Aros Guitar Duo, 30. Aug 2020
, TBA, Denmark
Sunday 30 August 2020
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Expert reviews

Textura.org ... external link

... The entrancing ebb-and-flow of Lohse's Ver pulls the listener into its lyrical world immediately and proves a wonderful showcase for the duo's precise fretwork.
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10 May 2024 - Textura


Ivan Rod ... external link

... Others are simply infinitely beautiful - for example, Martin Lohse's Ver. But all are also ambiguous, multifaceted, complex.
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5 April 2024 - Ivan Rod


Klassisk Bureau ... external link

... there's great dynamism in the heartfelt melancholy in the piece's first few minutes. ... You feel that Martin Lohse really wants to tell us something, and it keeps attention focused.
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5 April 2024 - Rachel Einarsson


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