BLADE
VISION OF THE WORK
BLADE – Concerto for Vibraphone and Orchestra
“My piece is based on Mozart’s Moorish Funeral Music and will use its cantus firmus as its musical nucleus. The compositional look back at one of the most confessional works in music history is transformed into the present day and takes a compositional journey into jazz. The Masonic brotherhood, which is generally banned in totalitarian states because its liberal humanist ideals are incompatible with dictatorial systems, represents a pan-European history of the last few centuries. For my new concerto, this means transforming the rigour of the cantus firmus into the aesthetic freedom of jazz idioms. Thus, my work will transition from a conduct-like rigour and lament to groovy rhythms. The vibraphonist acts like a musical time traveller who cuts into the DNA of Moorish funeral music as if with a blade.
It would therefore be ideal to play Mozart’s original immediately after the vibraphone concerto.
(Duration: approx. 20-25 min.)