Menuetto

Composer: Martin Lohse Year: 2008/2014 Worknumber: W. 27b.5 Category: Cat 2.9 (Solo) Duration: 6.5 min
Instrumentation: acc
Final solo version (2014) of a movement originally from 8 Momenti Mobile (2008) for saxophone quartet
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In English

Menuetto (2008 – 14)
Accordion solo

The score is in exact pitch, and the proposed registers can be changed according to the room and instrument.

Menuetto is dedicated to Bjarke Mogensen. The work has a long history: it originated as a minuet movement in 8 Momenti Mobile (2008) for saxophone quartet, was recomposed in 5 Momenti Mobile (2013) for accordion duo and piano trio, and finally reached its current solo form in 2014.

Along with the arrangement of Liszt’s Liebestraum (2006), it is one of the first works to employ “rhythm across harmony.” This technique here connects independent musical layers through a simple sequence of triads, a method that later evolved into the “mobile” technique based on major thirds.

Martin Lohse 2014

In Danish

Menuetto (2008 – 14)
Akkordionsolo

Partituret er i klingende notation (exact pitch), og de noterede registre kan ændres efter rum og instrument.

Menuetto er tilegnet Bjarke Mogensen og har gennemgået en længere udvikling: Det startede som en menuetsats i saxofonkvartetten 8 Momenti Mobile (2008), blev rekomponeret i 5 Momenti Mobile (2013) for akkordionduo og klavertrio, for til sidst at finde sin endelige form for soloakkordion i 2014.

Værket er, sammen med arrangementet af Liszts Liebestraum (2006), et af de første værker, hvor jeg benytter ”rytme på tværs af harmonik”. Her forbindes de uafhængige musikalske lag af en simpel sekvens af treklange – en fremgangsmåde, der senere udviklede sig til mobile-teknikken baseret på store tertser.

Martin Lohse 2014

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Performances

First Performance

Maskespil – tre lande, tre kunstarter
The Round Tower, Copenhagen, Denmark
Bjarke Mogensen
Sunday 25 January 2015

Other Performances

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Reviews

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  • LOHSE: Collage de Temps; 5 Momenti Mobile; Moto Immoto
    (Nathan Faro - American Record Guide Nov/Dec 2018)
    ... It takes considerable willpower not to rewind to the beginning when it finishes...
    ... Like the rest of Lohse’s works on the album, it is a delight.
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  • Classical Accordionist Hanzhi Wang Brings Darkly Dynamic New Nordic Compositions to Carnegie Hall
    (Delarue - NEW YORK MUSIC DAILY)
    ... 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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  • Virtuosic example of the versatility of the accordion
    (Julie Lamoureux - Amazon.com)
    ... All I can say is "Wow!", and I hope this recording receives the wide exposure and accolades it deserves.
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  • On the Path to H.C. Andersen
    (ArkivMusic - ArkivMusic)
    ... Poignant reflection and tragic depiction infuse Martin Lohse’s ‘Menuetto’ and ‘Match Girl (accordion)’ (dedicated to Hanzhi Wang), while his post-minimalist ‘Passing’ series forms adventurous mobiles of dancing light...
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  • On The Path to H.C. Andersen
    (Jerobear - Review Corner)
    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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  • On The Path to H.C. Andersen
    (David Denton - David's Review Corner)
    ...and my favourite, ..., is the technical excellence required for the three movements of Passing, her finger dexterity of prodigious virtuosity. The delicate colours that can be achieved from the instrument comes in the central part of Menuetto...
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  • MusicWeb International (2018)
    (Richard Hanlon - MusicWeb International)
    ... Lohse has given this (work) the lovely title Moto Immoto (Motionless motion), an apt oxymoron that utterly encapsulates this short, heartfelt piece...
    ... it certainly affected this reviewer in those terms - and easily bears repeated listening. It is revealing that this ten-minute panel lasts not a moment too long.
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  • Mogensen Lohse: Mobile, Works for Solo Accordion
    (Alessandro Mugnoz - Accordions Worldwide April 2018)
    ... Fresh music, contemporary but not excessively "intellectual" and not at all hermetic, indeed sincere and communicative, often captivating, which show strong roots with the great Western "classical" tradition; a happy combination, just like in Scarlatti, of lightness and playfulness with passion and solemnity.
    ... Music that surely reconciles the audience with contemporary "cultured" music and that undoubtedly enrichs the specific repertoire for the accordion.
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  • Myriader af detaljer og intense klange
    (Henrik Friis - Politiken, kultur)
    The mobiles are breathlessly intense as they alternate between mournful and optimistic with equal parts chain dance and black melancholy.
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  • Lykkeligt match
    (Mikael Krarup - mitFyn.dk)
    Lykkeligt match
    10 års samarbejde mellem Bjarke Mogensen og den danske komponist Martin Lohse har resulteret i en fin udgivelse med Lohses på én gang minimalistiske, melodiøse musik, som overraskende nok er moderne kompositionsmusik fra dette århundrede. Nogle er omskrevne tidligere værker, andre nykomponerede til Bjarke Mogensen. Lyst og venligt, men også indadvendt og mørkt, hans sans for udnyttelse af instrumentets trods alt begrænsede muligheder ligger i de ofte sindrigt udtænkte rytmiske lag, der som et "perpetuum mobile" udvikler sig og overrasker. Bjarke Mogensens suveræne spil gør oplevelsen stor, og ved flere aflytninger øges glæden. Cyklus-titler som "Passing" og "Momentum" synes velegnede og udtrykker sigende musikkens væsen, sammen med små menuetter eller de seks præludier, som er mere end blot forspil til noget andet.
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  • Politiken (11 Aug 2015)
    (Thomas Michelsen - Politiken, Kultur bagsiden)
    "This release will convert the skeptic to new classical music"
    "It may well be that you are not going to be religious, if you invest in this release from Gateway Music. On the other hand, there is some risk that you will be reversed and start listening to contemporary music."
    - translation from danish -
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