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[Bronius Kutavičius] String Quartet No.2 "Anno cum tettigonia" (Score-Video)

This quartet is a one-movement work, composed in 1980. Performers: Chordos String Quartet: Ieva Sipaitytė (Violin I) Vaida Paukštienė (Violin II) Robertas Bliškevičius (Viola) Arnas Kmieliauskas (Cello) Eglė Šeduikytė-Korienė (Organ) Tomas Kulikauskas (Tubular Bells) Audio from    • Anno cum tettigonia (Styginių kvartet...   —————— Bronius Kutavičius has been a long-time adherent of minimalism and achieved remarkable results thereof. In his works, he managed to ‘compress’ musical ideas into concise formulas and reach cathartic fulfilment through continuous repetition, augmentation and thickening of sound layers. With the use of very minimal means, he succeeded to contrive both static and dynamic soundscapes, to propel a perpetual wheel with apparent ease. The ostinato principle is a firm foundation, upon which many of Kutavičius’ works are built. Anno cum tettigonia (A Year with the Grasshopper) was written for the festival of Elżbieta and Krzysztof Penderecki in Lusławice, Poland. In this particular piece Kutavičius demonstrated his impressive mastery of formal design, cohering to the programmatic idea of the composition: Anno cum tettigonia comprises 365 bars (days in a year), 12 rings of the bell (months), and a new rhythmic pattern is added at every 7th bar (weeks). In addition, at every 19th bar, a new note is added to the scale in one or another part (the square of 19 is 361, which is close to the number of days in a year). The ‘clock of life,’ assembled from so many small gears and gathering speed and mass so quickly, gets inevitably stopped in the end of the composition. Kutavičius’s minimalism seems to be of archetypical nature, and his repetitive technique bears a likeness of archaic heritage honed through the centuries. (Source from MIC, Written by Rūta Gaidamavičiūtė) —————— I do not own neither the score, nor the recordings used in this video. This is only for educational purposes. If you have any complaints regarding copyright issues, please write to me directly at asorabji20(at)gmail(dot)com before submitting a report to YouTube and I will remove the video as soon as possible.