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D​.​Eichmann - Flight for Liudas for soprano saxophone and string quartet (2004)

from Liudas Mock​ū​nas - Polylogues (CD2​)​: Works for solo saxophone, Clarinet and string quartet by Liudas Mockūnas

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DIETRICH EICHMANN (*1966)
Flight for Liudas for soprano saxophone and string quartet (2004)

I met Liudas in 2003 when we shared the Music Omi Summer Residency in Hudson, NY. Over the years we’ve played a few concerts in a trio with American percussionist Jeff Arnal. That way I became very familiar with Liudas’s instrumental skills and his unique, inspiring improvisations. He heard a recording of the concerto Prayer to the Unknown Gods of the People Without Rights for large ensemble and improvising soloist Peter Brötzmann, which I wrote in 2002, and wanted to play this piece. But such a large-scale project was difficult to organize, so I suggested writing a new piece for him and he commissioned me to do so.
Prayer to the Unknown Gods… is a kind of portrait or vehicle for Brötzmann, in the sense that Duke Ellington wrote for the soloists of his orchestra. The musicians could fully do their own thing, while the result was as much Ellington’s music. Similarly, Flight for Liudas was inspired by Liudas’s improvisations and became a vehicle for an improvising soprano saxophonist and string quartet. As in Prayer…, the soloist has total freedom of choice regarding what to play – or NOT to play – because nothing is written for the saxophone, while the string quartet is precisely notated. Whereas Brötzmann improvised his part reacting directly to what he heard from the orchestra, Liudas decided to study the string quartet score thoroughly, so he could work with elements from the composition. Occasionally, he would even anticipate certain motifs and interweave material from the score into new structures of his own complex musical mind.

Dietrich Eichmann

As the title speaks for itself, this piece is a dedication to me by a good friend from Germany, the composer and improvising pianist Dietrich Eichmann. It’s a very interesting piece of music written in a complex way for strings and at the same time providing the soloist with total freedom of improvisation (flight).

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from Liudas Mock​ū​nas - Polylogues (CD2​)​: Works for solo saxophone, Clarinet and string quartet, released June 30, 2021

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