Instrumentation: (Fl.2 doubling picc., +Bass Clarinet), Brass, Percussion (Timpani, B.D. (1 player), T.-t. (1 player), Marimba (2 players), Vibraphone (2 players), Strings (divisi), Solo piano

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My second piano concerto carries the title "sun clouds", a title which occurred to me in November 2017 when visiting Nipaluna/Hobart. At the end of 2020, in Berlin, I had been reading about First Nation Lutruwitians in Gisela Völger's ethnographical work "Die Tasmanier" (pub. 1972) wherein "light clouds" are described:

”Their weather observation and foresight were so accurate that the colonists liked to get meteorological information from them. Light-broken or fast-moving clouds heralded the end of rain. A halo around the moon was a sure sign of bad, windy weather. The appearance of "light clouds" signified good weather, as did a constellation of three stars coming up at dawn in the eastern firmament (Robinson 1966: 892, 918 note 108).

(pp. 107-108, Die Tasmanier, Versuch einer ethnographisch-historischen Rekonstruktion, von Gisela Völger, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH - Wiesbaden 1972, transl. from German to English by DeepL).

Thus the piece I originally intended in 2017 emerged a little over three years later in February 2021.

sun clouds

I - sublime (9’)
II - gioioso (3’)
III - deserto (7’40“)
IV - estaticamente (9’)