Rūta Vitkauskaitė

Madra (2008)

Duration:

3′

Instrumentation:

2.0.1.0.tenor sax (2)/1.1.2.1/timp.perc(1)/pno/el g. bass g./sopr (2).m-sopr

Programme Note

Written for Orkestr Ereprijs competition, this piece has won me first international Prize. As the jury member said, it is as if ‘Ruta tried to fit in her whole world into those three minutes’. And, indeed, even within 3 minutes, the piece has three sections, that create a journey through growing texture of brass orchestra, and them, like a window opening into a new world, emerging into an unacompanied three three high voice song.