KRASCH! for saxophone quartet, percussion ensemble and
tape, was composed 1993 on commission by National Insitute
of Concerts for Kroumata and Raschèr Saxophone Quartet.
The title is a mix of the names of the ensembles but it
also describes the beginning of the piece. After a sounding
crasch we are in the midst of a turmoil of musical events.
This first part also changes the functions of the
instruments involved to let the percussions plays the
melodic material, whereas the saxophones plays the
rythmical material.
In the second part, which is peaceful and contemplative,
the tapepart extends the sustained tones by the saxophones
to complex chords, to which the percussion instruments
plays a more solosistic part.
The third part unites the two groups of instruments to an
almost asian coloured music, against the more electronic
sounds on the tape.
¨KRASCH!¨was a beginning of a further cooperations with the
ensembles, resulting in pieces like ¨Rounds¨(marimba + 6
perc.); ¨Orbit - concerto grosso no II¨ (for 6 perc. and
stringorch.) and ¨Concerto grosso no. I¨ f. saxophone
quartet and orchestra
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