vln1(2 stones/maracas or African nut shaker shells).vln2(2stones).vla(2stones/sleighbells).vlc(maracas/gong)-tape
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B&B
Kamni (Stones) was premiered by Orfeas String Quartet at Grosvenor Chapel, Nottinghill in London, 2010. The work is a music theatre where musicians are performers, playing also the small percussion instruments and reciting text. Each part is a contrast to the previous, in rhythmic, timbral and character. "Saki" is a mystic, rather mischievous , whilst "Gazol" has romantic motives and chords. "Tuprok" and "Gunoh" are dramatic parts. The last section, "Zunnor", takes us to the Coda, after a climax where all the instruments withdraw from one another into the extreme ranges of the registers, creating rather spacious emptiness, before disappearing into thin glass echo harmonics.
Aziza Sadikova