Vykintas Baltakas
Commentum
Duration: 10'
Dedication: für David Geringas und Ian Fountain
Instrumentation details:
violoncello
piano
Baltakas - Commentum for violoncello and piano
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Vykintas Baltakas
Baltakas: CommentumOrchestration: für Violoncello und Klavier
Type: Spielpartitur (Sonderanfertigung)
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“commentum: ‘comment, interpretation, invention, fabrication, fiction’, in classical Latin; neut. pp. of comminisci ‘to contrive, devise’, from com-, intensive prefix + base of meminisse (to remember).
Commentum is a free rendition of Chopin’s Introduction after listening to it again. Without any alterations, predilections and attempts at ‘modernisation’, but rather like a spontaneous expression of one’s personal opinion.
It was written for David Geringas and Ian Fountain as a commission from the Vilnius Festival.”
(Vykintas Baltakas)
World première 2 June 2011 at the Vilnius Festival.