In liquid... (accordion concerto, string orchestra)
Accordion concerto by Martin Lohse
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Recording
Cd-recording of In liquid... (accordion concerto, second version) for accordion and symphony orchestra
1. movement
2. movement
3. movement
4. movement
Cd-recording on Dacapo by Bjarke Mogensen and The Danish National Chamber Orchestra
Versions
The work is orchestrated in 8 versions.
Info
Composer Martin Lohse
Title In liquid...
Work number W.29c
Composition year 2008/2010/2019
Movements 4
Duration 16 min
Genre orchestral music
Number of instruments +10
Instrumentation accordion and string orchestra
Score notation computer (Sibelius)
Pages 22
Free score yes
Published yes
First performance 5 Feb 2020
- by Julie Holmegaard Schade and string orchestra
- place Concert Hall, Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen, Denmark
Musical styles and elements modern, expressive, concertante
Program note
In English
In Liquid... (2008/2010/2019)
Accordion and string orchestra
duration app. 16 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
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... is dedicated to Bjarke Mogensen, and is an instrumentation of In liquid... (accordion concerto, second version) for accordion and symphony orchestra.
Martin Lohse 2019
In Danish
In Liquid... (2008/2010/2019)
Akkordionkoncert (anden revision)
varighed ca. 16 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
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…
In Liquid... er dedikeret til Bjarke Mogensen og er en instrumentation af In liquid... (akkordion koncert, anden version) for akkordion og symfoniorkester.
Martin Lohse 2019
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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Kongresshaus in Biel, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Saturday 23 June 2018, 19:30
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Danish Radio P2 - Ugens Musiknavn, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tuesday 13 March 2012, 2:16
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Danish Radio - P2 Puls, Copenhagen, Denmark
Monday 12 March 2012, 2:48
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Danish Radio P2 - Ugens Musiknavn, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sunday 11 March 2012, 19:01
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... further results==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
... Matin Lohse’s subtle interplay of soloist and orchestra across four movements of varied mood and tempo gives In Liquid... a more individual profile than its Pärt-meets-Glass amalgam might suggest. ...
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- 1 July 2012 - Richard Whitehouse
... Martin Lohse’s In Liquid (2008/2010) is one of the most original works for accordion I have ever heard. Mogensen makes his brutal technical part sound so easy in this quasi minimalistic exercise in shifting fluid breathtaking sounds. ...
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- 29 June 2012 - Tiina Kiik
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
... 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 - Digital Chips
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