CONCERTO FOR CLARINET AND FOURTEEN CLARINETISTS    Op. 26

 

     Composer BETKO Milos

COMPOSITIONS - CONCERTO FOR CLARINET

VIDEO

  

Lyricist CIRCLE Peter

  

 

  

Original Title Koncert pre klarinet a strnast klarinetistov

  

Subtitle keyboard for thirteen clarinets and one well-known clarinetist in addition,

  

xylophone and some actor with trumpet
Genre abstract stage music

  

  

Movements 8 Scenes (Intermezzo between 3rd and 4th Scene)

  

  

Instrumentation 2 Clarinets in Eb, 8 Clarinets in Bb (one of them changes Clarinet in A),

  

2 Clarinets in A, 2 Bass Clarinets in Bb, Xylophone, Trumpet in Bb

  

Duration 35 minutes

  

  

Year of Composition 1989 - 1990

  

Copyright © Milos Betko (SOZA), Bratislava, Slovakia

  

Premiere TOMAN Kamil, ZEMAN Miroslav - Clarinets in Eb

  

DOBOS Ladislav, DRLICKA Peter, HERAK Radim, POUL Miroslav,

  

SEBESTA Robert, UHLIAR Jozef, ZIERIKOVA Miroslava - Clarinets in Bb

  

SEBESTA Ronald - Clarinet in Bb, Clarinet in A

  

KLEMENT Henrich, KONCER Gabriel - Clarinets in A

  

GRIGLAK Frantisek, VISKUP Ivan - Bass Clarinets in Bb

  

MASIK Peter - Xylophone

  

FEDER Roman - Actor with Trumpet

  

BETKO Milos - Stage Direction

  

Bratislava, Slovakia, 1992

  

 


Program note

"What we see and what we hear is complementary, self-supporting and self-explained."
Frruccio Busoni

Interviewer: "What it is playing with professional musicians like?"
Clarinetist No. 2 (aged 15): "It's fun. When I'm having my own performance, it's different. Now I am not so nervous. It's better than usually."
Interviewer: "At this concert, you're not only playing clarinets, but the composer makes you to move on the stage and make possible and impossible things, too. What is it like?"
Clarinetist No. 3 (aged 13): It's great fun, but it's not easy to move on the stage and play and I am nervous a little bit, too."
Interviewer: "What is your work with Milos Betko like?"
Clarinetist No. 4 (aged 15): "He tells us what to do and it is quite strange, because what he says seems unnatural to us. Therefore, we have to listen to his advice a lot."

Clarinetist No. 11 (aged 20): "Listen, does he always have so many of them?"
Clarinetist No. 12 (aged 27): "Yes. The most beautiful are that dark brown."

Clarinetist No. 9 (aged 62): "ADIS"

The artistic work potentially contains all possibilities to affect human senses. The author knows very precisely., what is intentional in his work and what is not. The percipient estimates, what is genetically intended and what is not. Opposition of intentional and unintentional may create substance of work.

Two composer's questions to the audience:
1.  Do you think that I have intentionally omited anything from the text?
2.  ... if yes, why no?

 


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