Stale obecna tesknota (In Hankering)

for violin, bass clarinet, percussion and piano

Basic information

Composer Zych, Wojciech Ziemowit
Duration 10 min.
Year of composition 2005
First performance (year) 2007
First performance (venue) Music Conservatory, Odense, Denmark
First performance (performers) Anna Klett (b cl), Joanna Stróż (perc), Erik Kaltoft (pf), Christine Michaela Pryn (vn)
Submitter Kwartludium +
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Conductor No
Soloist(s) no,

Instruments

Musicians 1st player 2nd player
Violin1
Clarinet 1
Bass
Musicians Instruments
Percussion 1
Marimba
Keyboard 1
Piano
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Sound electronics
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Notes

Programme notes

I wrote In Hankering in the spring of 2005. The piece consists of three parts:

I. Andante

II. Allegro

III. Lento

Between Parts II and III there is no rest (break). After the initial musical gesture of part III, there is only a dramatic pause included in the musical time of the piece. The title was inspired by a phrase from Tadeusz Wielecki's Egocentric Poem for amplified piano and tape. The work is dedicated to this composer.

In Hankering was composed for the Kwartludium ensemble, which also made its first CD recording, occasioning a presentation in Polish Radio Programme Two. I could therefore claim that the piece is known to Polish audiences in a virtual, perhaps – a mythical form. The world premiere public performance eventually took place many years after the CD release, with other performers, during the
'Musikhøst' festival of contemporary chamber music in Odense, Denmark, in early November 2007. The composition is still waiting now (April 2009) for its future Polish premiere.
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