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Momentum, for
solo clarinet
Festival "Formentera e Eivissa Clàsiques", October
2000
Reviewed
in Ultima Hora Ibiza,
Balearic Islands, Spain
October 12, 2000
"...Dos
obras contemporáneas se intercalaron en este programa fundamentalmente
clásico: Parábola No. 4 pra fagot solo
del norteamericano Vincent Persichetti y Momentum para
clarinete solo del argentino Martin Kutnowski. Esta última
e interesantísima obra merece especial atención, pues
está dedicada a Venacio Rius, quien la estreno en 1996 en el
Auditorium de Queens College en la City University of New York y la
ofreció aquí en Ibiza en calidad de estreno europeo...La
obra de Kutnowski fue para mí un bello descubrimiento: una
indagación de las posibilidades instrumentales menos ortodoxas
es llevada a cabo con tanto tino y rigor como en las celebradas Sequenze
de Luciano Berio, pero dentro de una atmósfera poética
y sutil tal vez más intensa y quintaesenciada; Rius estuvo
soberbio, claramente merecedor de la dedicatoria..."
("...Whereas
most of the program comprised works from the Classical period, it
also included two contemporary pieces: Vincent Persichetti's Parabole
No. 4 for solo bassoon, and Martin Kutnowski's Momentum,
for solo clarinet. This very interesting piece deserves especial attention,
because it is dedicated to Venancio Rius, who premiered it at Queens
College, City University of New York, in 1996. Rius gave here in Ibiza
its European premiere...Kutnowski's work was for me a beautiful discovery:
a quest towards the least orthodox instrumental possibilities carried
out with as much good sense and criteria as in Luciano Berio's celebrated
Sequenze. In this case, however, [Momentum
unfolds] within a poetic and subtle atmosphere perhaps even more intense
and distilled; Rius was superb, clearly deserving of the dedication..."
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Pedro A. Echarte,
Ultima
Hora Ibiza,
October
12, 2000
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