Double Percussion Concerto No. 1
General Info
Year of Published: 2014
Duration: 00:28:00
Cost: €50.00
Instrumentation
Solo
Player 1: Marimba & Crotales & Bell Plates & Tom Tom (High / Medium High / Medium) & Concert Bass Drum & Bongos & 2 Suspended Cymbals & China Cymbal & 5 Thai Gongs & Tam Tam (Medium) &Metal Pipes]]
Player 2: Vibraphone & Crotales & Tom Tom (Medium Low / Low) & Kick Dru & Octobans & Bongos & Congas & Suspended Cymbal & China Cymbal & Splash Cymbal & Tam Tam (Large) & Opera Gong
Orchestra
Woodwinds: Piccolo (also playing Flute) / 2 Flutes & 2 Clarinets & 2 Bassoons
Brass: 4 French Horns & 3 Trumpets & 2 Trombones & Tuba
Percussion: Timpani / Xylophone / Bass Drum & Suspended Cymba / Tam Tam
Strings: Violin 1 and 2 / Viola / Cello / Bass
Description
The concerto consists of three movements. The first movement starts with strings presenting passionate, heavy and fundamental thematic material. It is later used in the first entrance of the soloists with its melodic material performed on the vibraphone. At the beginning and the end of the opening section, the vibraphone uses very hard mallets to get violent and aggressive color. In the next sections the tension is gradually building up, with polyrhythmic constructions placed in the wood instruments with sustained, muted notes in the brass section. After the first, short “tutti” culmination the immediate exchange of roles between the wood and brass instruments emerges. In this time, soloists have irregular rhythmic constructions in a very fast motion, melting together with the massive sound of the orchestra. The next section brings the contemplation to the movement. It starts with the solo of the wood instruments followed by the soloists who take the lead together with strings and flutes. Till the end of the movement the opening motive comes back several times in different combinations and coloristic versions.
The second movement can be described as more abstract, more disturbing and more demanding. The movement is opened by percussion soloists with the use of amplified thunder sheet instrument which will produce very dark, “scary like” sounds surrounded by other percussive effects. The similar idea will finish the movement. Besides the beginning and the end, the soloists are using marimba and vibraphone in the entire movement.
The third movement, the final, starts in a very “classical” and humoristic musical narration creating a huge contrast with the previous movement. In time it gets more tensed and serious with a lot of rhythmical power.
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Marimba Solo
Concertino "Luminosity"
Etude No. 1
Etude No. 2
God Particles
Purity I
The Mirror
Concerto Works
Double Percussion Concerto No. 1
Double Marimba Concerto No. 2
Percussion Ensemble
Flow (Goliński) - Marimba Duo
God Particles II - Marimba Duo; Electronics
Hikikomori - Multiple Percussion Duo; Electronics
Layered Elements - Multiple Percussion Duo
Overseas - Percussion 18
Purity II - Marimba Duo
The Absurd World II - Marimba Duo
The Mirror II - Marimba Duo
The Principal Delusion - Mallet Ensemble
Marimba Quartet No. 2 - Marimba Quartet
With Other Instrument
Fanstasia - Marimba; Organ
Shades - Marimba; Saxophone
The Concrete Jungle - Marimba; Violin
The Three Little Birds - Marimba; Flute