To Forget You Is To Forget My Name

concerto for flute and orchestra (3,3,3,3/4,3,3,1/harp,2perc,timp/strings)
composed 1997-98; duration 22 minutes
commissioned by the Odense Symphony Orchestra
world premiere Odense (Denmark) June 6th 1998 at the First International Carl Nielsen Flute Competition
Andras Adorjan – flute
Odense Symphony Orchestra; Jan Wagner – conductor

Recording with Andras Adorjan and the Odense Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jan Wagner:

The piece was later released with Lars Graugaard on flute and Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tseung Yeh:

The concerto opens with a short, energetic exclamation from the orchestra. The soloist emerges in the low range of the instrument, and a background of percussion provides a atmosphere for his developing of trills and quarter-tones. Gradually the phrasing expands, and more instruments join the orchestral backdrop.

At a certain point the music moves into and area of rhythms and sudden changes of direction, and the passage grows into a fierce dialogue between the soloist and orchestra. At the mid-point of the piece, the orchestra takes over in a fairly long interlude, in which the energy finally is dispersed. The soloist makes a new entry, and a cadenza brings focus on the main protagonist. The orchestra enters in what is a prolongation of the cadenza, rather than a development of new material.

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