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Variations of a Double

Composer
Kondor Ádám
Original / Hungarian title
Variations of a Double
Foreign language / English title
Variations of a Double
Subtitle
For clarinet and piano
Dedication
to Csaba Klenyán and Gábor Csalog
Year of composition
2005
Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
2
Instrumentation
cl., pf.
Duration
40 min
Publisher / Source
Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest Ⓒ 2009, Z. 14549
Available here!
Recordings
Video recording, 2015 - Lajos Rozmán (cl.), László Borbély (pf.) (Available on youtube.com)
Video recording (with score) - Csaba Klenyán (cl.), Gábor Csalog (pf.) (Available on youtube.com)
Remarks, other info
Variations on a Double is a real musical leviathan: almost an hour long, it is a sound-monstrosity that makes exceptional demands of the performers, and is the product of an unusual degree of fusion of the clarinet with the piano. Composed in 2005 for Csaba Klenyán and Gábor Csalog, the work interprets the meaning of the musical „double” in an unconventional way: in it there is not a union of two independent instrumental characters, each with its individual identity - as in a grandiose sonata; instead, its artistic form tends in exactly the opposite direction. A single, monodically conceived unit of musical material passes over and over again through the doubling; they do not form two parts, yet do not unite in unison, but present the split face of a single endless - fragmented and episodic - monologue, like Siamese twins. Beware, this is only for the musically mature!