Heinrich Kaminski
Dorische Musik
Short instrumentation: 2 2 3 3 - 2 2 0 0 - timp, perc, str
Duration: 29'
Solos:
violin
viola
violoncello
Instrumentation details:
1st flute (+picc)
2nd flute (+picc)
1st oboe
2nd oboe
1st clarinet in Bb
2nd clarinet in Bb
bass clarinet in Bb
1st bassoon
2nd bassoon
contrabassoon
1st horn in F
2nd horn in F
1st trumpet in F (or Bb)
2nd trumpet in F (or Bb)
timpani
triangle
cymbals
gong
bass drum
violin I
violin II
viola
violoncello
double bass
Kaminski - Dorische Musik for orchestra with string trio concertino
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Work introduction
After hearing the Berlin performance of this work, Wilhelm Furtwängler immediately scheduled it for one of his concerts; the piece also moved a critic to assert that Heinrich Kaminski was “the richest inner life of the younger generation.” At once devout and hymnal, jubilant and lyrical, Dorische Musik [“Dorian Musik”] is the expression of Kaminski’s affinity with Bach and his response to the ideology of National Socialism. Kaminski, who founded the Order of the Loving, also used his music to express a devotion to art as a revelation of the Divine.