Kondor Ádám: Variations of a Double
for clarinet and piano
partition et parties
Instrumentation: Clarinette et piano
Collection: Musique Contemporaine d'EMB
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Période: Musique contemporaine
Pages: 224 pp
Format: A/4
Poids: 0.733 kg
Date du parution: 1 juin 2009
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 14549
ISMN: 9790080145494
Variations on a Double is a real musical leviathan: almost an hour long, it is a sound-monstrosity that makes exceptional demands of the performers, and is the product of an unusual degree of fusion of the clarinet with the piano. Composed in 2005 for Csaba Klenyán and Gábor Csalog, the work interprets the meaning of the musical „double” in an unconventional way: in it there is not a union of two independent instrumental characters, each with its individual identity - as in a grandiose sonata; instead, its artistic form tends in exactly the opposite direction. A single, monodically conceived unit of musical material passes over and over again through the doubling; they do not form two parts, yet do not unite in unison, but present the split face of a single endless - fragmented and episodic - monologue, like Siamese twins. Beware, this is only for the musically mature!