Menuetto

Composer: Martin Lohse Year: 2015 Worknumber: W. 27.5c Category: Cat 2.8 (Chamber) Duration: 6.5 min
Instrumentation: 2 gtr
Arrangement for guitar duo of the solo accordion work, created in collaboration with the Copenhagen Guitar Duo - score not yet available

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    Program Note

    In English

    Menuetto (2014)
    Guitar duo

    Menuetto is an arrangement for guitar duo of the work for solo accordion, created by the Copenhagen Guitar Duo (Allan Sjølin and Martin Buono) in close collaboration with the composer.

    Menuetto (2008-2014) 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 found its current form for solo accordion in 2014.

    Alongside the arrangement of Liszt’s Liebestraum (2006) for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, it is one of the first works to utilize the ‘rhythm across harmony’ technique. This approach later evolved into the ‘mobile’ composition technique, where distinct musical layers – independent in time and rhythm – are connected by a simple sequence of major thirds.

    Martin Lohse 2014

    In Danish

    Menuetto (2014)
    Guitarduo

    Menuetto er et arrangement for guitarduo af værket for soloakkordeon, udarbejdet af Copenhagen Guitar Duo (Allan Sjølin og Martin Buono) i tæt samarbejde med komponisten.

    Menuetto (2008-2014) er tilegnet Bjarke Mogensen.

    Værket har en længere forhistorie: det begyndte som en menuet-sats i saxofonkvartetten 8 Momenti Mobile (2008), blev rekomponeret i 5 Momenti Mobile (2013) for akkordeonduo og klavertrio, og fandt endelig sin nuværende form for soloakkordeon i 2014.

    Sammen med arrangementet af Liszts Liebestraum (2006) for klarinet, violin, cello og klaver er det et af de første værker, hvor teknikken ‘rytme på tværs af harmonik’ benyttes. Dette udviklede sig senere til kompositionsteknikken mobile, hvor forskellige musikalske lag, uafhængige i tid og rytme, forbindes af en simpel sekvens af store tertser.

    Martin Lohse 2014

    Performances

    First Performance

    Sjømannskirken, San Francisco
    Sjømannskirken, San Francisco, United States
    Copenhagen Guitar Duo
    Sunday 29 March 2015

    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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    • 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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