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Rundherum, Op. 57.

Composer
Tihanyi László
Original / Hungarian title
Rundherum, Op. 57.
Foreign language / English title
Rundherum, Op. 57.
Year of composition
2012
Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
5
Instrumentation
pf. - 2 vl., vla., vlc. / manjira or 1 pair of crot., 3 armonica a bocca (C/D flat; B; C), trg., small cymb., small metal chimes
Duration
15 min
Commissioned by
Fürstensaal Classix / Kempten International Chamber Music Festival
Premiere information
22 September 2012, Kempten, Germany; Oliver Triendl (pf.), Sølve Sigerland (vl.), Geneviève Laurenceau (vl.), Lise Berthaud (vla.), László Fenyő (vlc.), László Tihanyi (cond.)
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Remarks, other info
The piece was composed in the spring of 2012, at the request of the Kempten International Chamber Music Festival. The title Rundherum refers to the staging of the piece and the movement of the players. Central to the sound are the cello and the piano - their position does not alter during the piece. The other three instruments circle round the central point, both musically and spatially. The piano and the front desk parts represent the world of reality, but when the ‚wandering’ instruments are played at the desks behind the piano, they speak of a hidden world. This drama presents the open and the closed world of the human soul, the contradictions of our public and private being. The difference between the two musical layers is emphasized by the fact that the back desk parts are supplemented with other instruments. The sounds of the mouth organs and percussion instruments raise the music of the ‚inner world’ to another tone-dimension.