In Liquid...

Composer: Martin Lohse Year: 2008/2009/2011 Worknumber: W. 26c Category: Cat 2.8 (Chamber) Duration: 16 min
Instrumentation: acc, pno
Third version (2011)
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In English

In Liquid… (2008/2009/2011)

Accordion and piano (third version)

The title In Liquid… refers specifically to a liquid perception of time. Repetitions, sequences, and patterns evolve slowly, shifting between one another. The displacement of tempo – whether through gradual acceleration or by freezing into a nearly static state – evokes a sense of long-lost times that live on in our memory and merge with our presence in the here and now.

The work is dedicated to Bjarke Mogensen and David Lau Magnussen.

The concerto unfolds in four main sections:

    1. Andante semplice. Allegretto. Allegro. Vivace
    2. Andante. Allegro. Meno allegro
    3. Cadenza: quasi improvvisazione. Allegro moderato
    4. Andante cantabile e molto semplice

Duration app. 16 min

Martin Lohse 2019

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In Danish

In Liquid… (2008/2009/2011)

Akkordeon og klaver (tredje udgave)

Titlen In Liquid… henviser især til den flydende fornemmelse af tid. Gentagelser, sekvenser og mønstre 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.

Værket er dedikeret til Bjarke Mogensen og David Lau Magnussen.

Koncerten udfolder sig i fire hoveddele:

  1. Andante semplice. Allegretto. Allegro. Vivace
  2. Andante. Allegro. Meno allegro
  3. Cadenza: quasi improvvisazione. Allegro moderato
  4. Andante cantabile e molto semplice
Varighed ca. 16 min

 

:Martin Lohse 2019

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Performances

First Performance

Sunday 3 April 2011 – Bjarke Mogensen and Alex McKenzie – Apostelkirken, Copenhagen

Other Performances

Please note: This is not a complete list. It includes live performances and radio broadcasts across all versions of the work. While the archive is highly comprehensive for earlier years, recent entries show only a fraction of the 500-1.000 annual performances across the composer's complete catalog, reflecting only those events reported to and logged by the composer.

Reviews

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  • New Sounds for the Humble Squeeze Box!
    (Sue Leigh Waugh - Amazon - review)
    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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  • Accordion Concertos New CD/SACD
    (Martin Anderson - International Record Review (July-August 2012))
    ... 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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  • Accordion Concertos
    (Richard Whitehouse - Gramophone)
    ... 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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  • Accordion Concertos
    (Tiina Kiik - Wholenote Magazine)
    ... 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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  • Accordion Concertos
    (Digital Chips - Amazon-review)
    ... 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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  • Fresh sounds for a folk instrument
    (RGraves321 - Amazon - review)
    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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  • Accordion Concertos
    (Dr. Debra Jan Bibel - Amazon-review)
    ... Martin Lohse, In Liquid..., begins with a moderately slow, quiet flowing; the middle section starts, or barely starts, in a hesitant fashion and then becomes dramatic with various tempi and tensions. The work closes with a slow, minimalistic pensive reverie. ...
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  • Accordion Concertos
    (Joshua Kosman - San Francisco Chronicle)
    How's this for an improbable turn of events: The most beautiful, dramatic and sheerly irresistible disc of new music to cross my desk in months is a compilation of four Scandinavian accordion concertos....
    ... The newer works are even more striking - Anders Koppel's Concerto Piccolo begins with an eerie dreamscape that will give you chills, while Martin Lohse's In Liquid covers a range of styles without abandoning its distinctive and forceful voice.
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  • VIRTUOSI IN FOCUS
    (The Infodad Team - Infodad.com)
    ... Two of the pieces here, Anders Koppel’s Concerto Piccolo (2009) and Martin Lohse’s In Liquid… (2008/2010), were specifically written for Mogensen, and it is easy to see why. He seems able to make the accordion into something it does not naturally appear to be: an instrument of considerable emotional range, tonal impact and sonic beauty. Both Koppel and Lohse demand accordion playing that is not only virtuosic but also refined and emotive, and Mogensen delivers it with seeming effortlessness throughout both pieces. ...
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  • Accordion Concertos
    (Norman Lebrecht - La Scena Musicale)
    If you thought the best way to kill a dinner party is to play modern Nordic concertos on the accordion, think again. Bjarke Morgensen's set by Schmidt, Koppel, Lohse and Norgard, neither lugubrious nor autistic, fizz like an aural set of Northern Lights. Weird and scintillating stuff.
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  • Accordion Concertos
    (Elissa Poole - The Globe and Mail (Canada))
    ... We also love the ooze and slide of Martin Lohse's In Liquid ...
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  • Accordion Concertos
    (WRUV Reviews - WRUW Reviews)
    Mostly modern and contemporary Danish works for accordion and orchestra. No oompah here, mostly gentle and lyrical. Nice!
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  • Accordion Concertos
    (Mikael Garnæs - Fyens Stiftstidende)
    ... Martin Lohses let minimalistiske stil (2008) matcher accordeonens mange muligheder og især Bjarke Mogensens talentfulde spil glimrende. ...
    Google translation
    Martin Lohses light minimalist style (2008) match the accordions many possibilities and especially Bjarke Mogensen talented play brilliantly.
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  • Accordion Concertos
    (Jens Povlsen - Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten)
    Den unge akkordeon-djævel Bjarke Mogensen springer frem med gennemslagskraft og ypperlig teknik i Schmidts skarptskårne symfoniske fantasi og både fræser og gynger derudaf i de næste to koncerter.
    Google translation
    The young accordion-devil Bjarke Mogensen leap forward with vigor and excellent technique in Schmidt's clean-cut symphonic fantasy, and both swings and cutter along in the next two concerts.
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