Vykintas Baltakas
*10.07.1972

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Vykintas Baltakas
(co)ro(na) | for ensemble

Work Details
Year of composition: 2005
Scored for: for ensemble
Composer: Vykintas Baltakas
Instrumentation: 1 1 1 0 - 1 1 0 0 - perc, acc, pno, sop.sax, vln
Instrumentation details: flute; clarinet in Eb; soprano saxophone in Bb; oboe; piccolo trumpet; horn in F; percussion; violin; accordion; piano
Commissioned by: Auftragswerk des NDR, Das Neue Werk
Duration (min): 9

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World Première
Location: Rolf-Liebermann-Studio Hamburg / Germany
Date: 24.02.2005
Orchestra: NDR SO
Conductor: Vykintas Baltakas
Work Introduction

This piece is part of a cycle.

Music is perhaps, by its very nature, infinite. You have to imagine a big mountain. On the top of it there stands someone with a stone in front of him. It is as yet motionless, everything is open, one is free. But then the man moves the stone. The stone is [...]

Reviews

"His (co)ro(na) is a picturesque study in tensions and texture, with instruments producing high, antic fluttering sounds about the grounding force of piano, percussion and long tones on horn. Some strange and sonic tone poetry is at hand, with the bracing sounds balanced by suspended clouds [...]