In 2005 I wrote the first part of a solo cello piece for Jozef Lupták entitled Capriccio. He premiered it in Germany and it still waits to be completed and performed at home. It is not the first instance of a "work in progress" but the first instance of a "seminal idea". For some time, I have been developing a single "idea" in several pieces. At the beginnig of 2007 I wrote a piece for four cellos, the recording and the performance of which came to nothing due to "technical" difficulties. The piece´s title is The Roar and it strictly develops the material of Capriccio. The atmosphere has changed, though. After works focused on night music (Notturni 1-6-) and after related "quite" pieces I turned to opposite expression. Later (in Summer 2007) I wrote Wrath I for chamber ensemble and the piece (at last) was performed: only in Ostrava, and that is a shame, but the result was for me a pleasant surprise.

This time, I wrote a kind of Wrath II - 9 sections/"encounters" (manifestations, variations, forms...as you like it) of "wrath" for a group of nine players: three trios - winds (flute/piccolo, clarinet in B flat/E flat, bass clarinet/clarinet), strings (violin, viola, cello) and accordion, piano, cimbalom - a hybrid wind-percussion "piano". Numbers 1-3 make up the first section, No. 4 is an intermezzo, Nos. 5 and 6 represent a complex two part structure with "superinstruments" (each part is made of four instruments), No. 7 is the apogee of the two-part structure in the form of a viola solo. No. 8 is in fact Wrath II, and No. 9 is a coda.

Marián Lejava