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  • Rune Glerup

  • Om Lys og Lethed (2021)
    ("Über Licht und Leichtigkeit / About Light and Lightness")

  • Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)

Commissioned by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra / DR SymfoniOrkestret. Dedicated to Isabelle Faust.

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Programme Note

My violin concerto would never have been written if I had not met Isabelle Faust. At a time when I had not written a single note for several months, doubting if I would ever write anything again, her interest and energy was the cause of new inspiration. Just as important was her special way of playing - with intellect, heart and a rare, delicate sensibility. Her personality and musicianship struck a chord in me, in my music, which gave my thoughts a new direction.

The violin concerto marks a change in my music towards a simpler and lighter expression. An expression that also contains detached glimpses from my childhood's endless summers by the North Sea. Birds, high and slow on a blue sky, and the evening quietly descending. The special light, the distant sounds. But also the confusion, repetitions and dead ends of the world. An expression that, more than in my previous music, is "About Light and Lightness."

- Rune Glerup, 2021

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DR Symphony Orchestra had a celebrity visit - and the result was outstanding

The 40-year-old composer Rune Glerup held a baptism with his new violin concerto with Isabelle Faust as soloist. The work is in five movements and was specially written for the German musician, who also performed it that with great empathy. Fierce and fervor alternated movement by movement, with the fourth movement "Evening" as a beautiful example of the latter. Glerup has said that "the violin concerto marks a change in my music towards a more simple and light expression. An expression which contains detached glimpses of my childhood's endless summers by the North Sea. Birds, loud and slowly in a blue sky…”

Peter Dürrfeld, Kristeligt Dagblad
20th September 2022

Glerup's new violin concerto written for the German star musician Isabelle Faust was unfolded only at the top of the sound spectrum, in the very brightest, quietest part of the sound space that our ears can perceive. And at the same time in a light, poetic and direct way. Not light as in easy, but atmospheric in nature.

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Glerup has worked extremely meticulously with the very small building blocks of music since he emerged a good 10 years ago as a newly minted composer out of the elite Parisian institute for electronic music, IRCAM. It is as if nothing is given to him in advance, but that each work is constructed with a new recipe and new techniques for the same ingredients. That is, the classical instruments. That's also how the new violin concerto felt like.

Henrik Friis, Politiken
16th September 2022

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