Horn and Chamber
Orchestra
SKU:
BT.EMBZ14485
Composed
by Zsolt Serei. EMB
Contemporary Music.
Contemporary Music. Book
Only. Composed 2006. 40
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ14485.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ14485).
English-Hungarian.
In view of its
arrangement Serenade,
written for horn and
chamber orchestra of
fourteen instruments, may
be regarded as a chamber
concert. The one-movement
piece written on command
of horn player
László Rákos is
at the same time related
to the notturno music of
the 18th-19th centuries.
It is a character piece
in which a subdued,
subtle irony makes itself
felt alongside the
characteristically
night-time atmosphere.
The solo role of the horn
is obvious throughout,
though the initial
impetus is not sustained,
and in the course of the
movement the instrument
falls silent. The
instruments of the
accompanying group join
in with the horn in three
ways: the clarinet, the
English horn,the bassoon,
the viola, the
violoncello play the
melodies of the horn,
delicately repeating
them, supplementing them
or slowing them down, the
flute, the violin, the
trumpet and the double
bass counterpoint the
horn?s solos or hold
dialogues with it, the
third group ? the harp,
the guitar, the
vibraphone, the cimbalom
and the piano ? plays
soft, veiled, evenly
progressing harmonies. In
the last section of the
piece, when the first and
second group of
instruments are no longer
playing, these veiled
sounds hold together,
their rhythm gradually
breaks up - the sound
environment is reduced,
progressively emptied.
World premi?re: June 2,
1993, Budapest,
László Rákos -
horn, Componensemble,
cond. Zsolt Serei.