KONZERTSTÜCK

KONZERTSTÜCK for violin, violoncello and piano (2018)|

version for violin, bass clarinet and piano (2021)

Raminta Šerkšnytė. Konzertstück for volin, cello and piano. Trio Kaskados: Rusnė Mataitytė (violin), Edmundas Kulikauskas (cello), Albina Šikšniūtė (piano)

PROGRAMME NOTE

In my Konzertstück I wanted to express ironic, sarcastic mood, which would remind the character of Mephistopheles. Therefore the music is consciously based on diminished seventh chords, since the triton is considered as the “Devil’s interval”. In this piece I also added some jazz “flavor”: swinging rhythm, progressions of the seventh chords, and virtuoso cadenzas.

Raminta Šerkšnytė

YEAR OF COMPOSITION: 2018

INSTRUMENTATION: violin, violoncello and piano |

version for violin, bass clarinet and piano

DURATION: ca. 7′

COMMISSION: O/Modernt (Sweden)

PREMIERE: Hugo Ticciati (violin), Jakob Koranyi (cello), Heini Kärkkäinen (piano)

COPYRIGHT: Raminta Šerkšnytė

SCORE (manuscript): please contact raminta.serksnyte@gmail.com

PERFORMING RIGHTS: please contact Mr. Stefan Fragner:  fragner@rbartists.at