Compositions

Angel’s Ride Concerto for clarinet and orchestra (2014) 28′
2(picc), 2, 0, 2 – 4, 1, 1, 0 – timp, perc(1), cl, str
3 mouvements:  1. Fly! 2. Transcend 3. Angel Wing

"Angel's Ride" was composed at Easter 2014 as a brilliant concerto, making high technical and interpretative demands on the soloist, who like characters in the opera, embody their her role with theatrical flair – the clarinet itself introduces all musical characters.
In "Angel's Ride" the clarinet symbolises the figure of the angel with the world as counterpart. In the first movement "Fly!" he is fleeing from potential captors – in a mischievous game of tag (a little jazzy). The second movement "Transcend" tells the angel's story: he carries the suffering of the world and recalls his carefree childhood – once human – he improvises with his pipe in his sad childlike fashion and then rises up into eternal heavenly spheres to finally become part of the angels' choir. In the third movement "Angel Wing" the earthly world is revealed as a misshapen being – forcefully challenged by the (arch)angel with his strong angel's wings, powerfully presenting his divine world brimming with joyous beauty. However the world is swallowed up by the loudly heralded apocalypse, out of which the angel emerges, solitary, withdrawn, puzzled and pensive and then – sparked by a little magic trick – returns to his old mischievous game – as at the beginning…so was it all just a dream?