Concerto piccolo II

(2025)

for accordion and Orchestra

Short instrumentation: 2 2 2 2 - 4 2 3 1, timp, perc, str

Duration: 12'

Solos:

accordion

Instrumentation details:

1st flute

2nd flute

1st oboe

2nd oboe (+c.a)

1st clarinet in Bb

2nd clarinet in Bb

1st bassoon

2nd bassoon

1st horn in F

2nd horn in F

3rd horn in F

4th horn in F

1st trumpet in C

2nd trumpet in C

bass trombone

1st trombone

2nd trombone

tuba

timpani

bass drum (+w.b)

violin I (14 players)

violin II (12 players)

viola (10 players)

violoncello (8 players)

double bass (6 players)

Concerto piccolo II

Work in progress

Work introduction

Program note

Concerto piccolo II is inspired by the complex rhythms created when the ocean waves hit the rocks. At first it is interesting, I become curious, but it quickly transforms into a different state, a special feeling of time, where I am both completely present and outside of time itself.

The movement starts with slow expressive music that gradually becomes faster, more intense until baroque music breaks through at the end of the work.

The work can be performed together with Concerto piccolo I (2023) as Accordion Concerto No. 3.

The two movements were composed concurrently for Bjarke Mogensen, as works for accordion and electronics/sampled orchestra in 3D immersive audio. It is created for performances in churches, galleries, larger or smaller concert venues, as well as outdoors in a rocky landscape, the forest or the city in squares, factory buildings or the like.

Martin Lohse 2025