Vykintas Baltakas
*10.07.1972

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Vykintas Baltakas
Instructions for casting an ancient love spell, which will bind your lover to you at once and for ever | for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone

Work Details
Year of composition: 2007
Scored for: for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone
Composer: Vykintas Baltakas
Text Source: Roman magic spell, from “Antike Zaubersprüche”,
translated and edited by Alf Önnerfors, adapted by Vykintas Baltakas
Original Language: Deutsch
Translator: Alf Önnerfors
Instrumentation details: SATB
Commissioned by: Auftragswerk von Neue Vocalsolisten, Musik der Jahrhunderte
Remarks: english title: Instructions for casting an ancient love spell, which will bind your lover to you at once and for ever
Duration (min): 12
Purchase information: Selected editions are available on sale on request.
Licensing: Licensing Request
World Première
Location: Theaterhaus Stuttgart / Germany
Date: 14.02.2008
Choir: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Work Introduction

At the end some of the impetus is lost. With an ironic wink Vykintas Baltakas has produced a bravura piece, concise and insistent, for two female and two male voices: Instructions for an old love-charm, to bind your beloved to you forever.

An almost mechanical and yet subtly differentiated [...]