Concerto in Tempi

Mobile II

Composer: Martin Lohse Year: 2010 Worknumber: W. 34a Category: Cat 2.8 (Chamber) Duration: 11 min
Instrumentation: acc, pno
Original work, first edition

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Concerto in Tempi is about time – both slow and fast – laid in layers on top of each other.

Long themes and small motifs, in various time signatures and tempos, swirl between each other and blend into a texture of voices that slowly change and ebb away, like the pure colored light from a glass mosaic in a church as darkness falls.

The work is available in several versions: the original for accordion and piano (1st edition 2010, 2nd edition 2012) and arrangements for accordion with string orchestra, string quintet, string quartet, or cello quartet (2012).

Dedicated to Bjarke Mogensen and David Lau Magnussen
Duration app. 11 min

Martin Lohse 2012

In Danish

Concerto in Tempi handler om tid, både langsom og hurtig og lagt som lag ovenpå hinanden.

Lange temaer og små motiver, i forskellige taktarter og tempoer, hvirvler rundt mellem hinanden og blandes sammen i et væv af stemmer der langsomt forandres og ebber ud, ligesom det rene farvede lys fra en glasmosaik i en kirke, efterhånden som mørket falder på.

Værket findes i flere versioner: Originaludgaven for akkordion og klaver (1. udgave 2010, 2. udgave 2012) samt udgaver for akkordion og henholdsvis strygeorkester, strygekvintet, strygekvartet eller cellokvartet (2012).

Dedikeret til Bjarke Mogensen og David Lau Magnussen
Varighed ca. 11 min

Martin Lohse 2012

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