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Reviews of Paweł Mykietyn's "Concerto for Flute and Orchestra"
2013-12-02
"Rather, in Mykietyn rhythmical games dominate, continually slowing, but never slow - very interestingly done" - Dorota Szwarcman wrote about last Saturday's premiere of Paweł Mykietyn's new work ("Concerto for Flute and Orchestra") on the blog „Co w duszy gra”. Further in the review we read: „The composer admitted that everything comes from a single mathematical formula, adding that in writing this work he was not really at ease, he didn't really want to do it, which is why he turned to mathematics. Perhaps indeed it was like this, but for me the effect was far more interesting than Wax Music, performed at Warsaw Autumn, which was in essence a conceptual, not musical work.”http://szwarcman.blog.polityka.pl/2013/11/30/trzy-premiery/
And Agnieszka Grzybowska wrote: „The action in the work depends upon a certain thinning, Mykietyn tries to convince the listener that time is flexible and it is possible to pull it about a little. The form creating mechanism can be defined as operations slowing the tempo. The sound is split, and the texture becomes a little less clear through changes of time relations between groups of instruments. Mykietyn's Concerto, expressively somewhat aloof, is not devoid of drama. The tension is created through references to styles characterised by a different kind of emotionality – neoromantic and popular-jazz.”
The premiere of Paweł Mykietyn's "Concerto for Flute and Orchestra" took place on 29 November in Łódź. The concert was performed by the Symphony Orchestra of the Łódź Philharmonic conducted by Wojciech Rodek and Łukasz Długosz (flute).
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