Description

AS THEY MET ME for bass clarinet and orchestra (2014) is the acoustic reflection of my meetings with works created by different personalities of the world. Apparently isolated, as they got an image in my mind, the eight events started a dialogue and brought to life the attraction to each other: the works of film director Jean Becker, then the art collectionary Sara Hildén's life, the Gabriel Garcia Márquez's novels, the Otto Wagner's marks in Viennese architecture, the cinematographic eye of Jean-Luc Godard, the bright colours of Kees van Dongen, the monk's Aimilianos Simonopetritis thinking and my friend and poet Ion Stratan's joy of words.

The music is my answer to their impact on me, a reaction transformed in conversation on art and philosophy.

Instrumentation

2222 2200 01 0, str, bcl solo

Category

Works for Soloist(s) and Orchestra

Premiere

International Week of New Music, Bucharest, 20.05.2016, Mikko Raasakka and the Orchestra of the National University of Music from Bucharest, conductor Bogdan Vodă

Movements

I. Jean Becker, II. Sara Hildén, III. Gabriel Garcia Márquez, IV. Otto Wagner, V. Jean-Luc Godard, VI. Kees van Dongen, VII. Aimilianos Simonopetritis, VIII. Ion Stratan

Commisioned by / dedications

Dedicated to Mikko Raasakka

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Archive number

MF34677

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