Four poems form a tragic storyline of immortal poet herself for female voice and prepared piano from 2002-3

Op.06 Dickinson Songs (2002 - 3, Rev.2005, S.Adamíková, A.Mudroňová 2005) Full

violas - Peter Šesták, Peter Vrbinčík
cellos - Jozef Lupták, Eugen Prochác
piano - Nora Skuta
conductor - Marián Lejava
recorded in may 2002, Bratislava
taken from "Marián Lejava: Chant d´Amour" CD (Medial institute, 2006) 

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Principium op.15 (2012) is the first of a series of seven chamber concertos written for my close friends. It was created at a time when my musical language took a new direction, hence the name Principium - as principle and beginning at the same time. In the first, it is Milan Pal's viola accompanied by six instruments. Each subsequent concert adds one more instrument to the ensemble. Performers: MIlan Pala - viola, Metrum Ensemble Budapest, Marian Lejava - conductor. Live Budapest December 2014.

Principium op.15 (Heptacon Concerto no.1) (2012)

Milan Pala - violin
László Borbély - piano
Live Budapest December 2014

The first part of a super sonata in which each part is modeled according to classical form types. This is a sonata form with music that I conceived as a liberation from my own routines. The sonata is a piece of "loud" music as a direct contrast to the period of quiet compositions that preceded it. It is a work in progress.

Lost Sonata (part 1) Op.18 (2014)

Radio symphony orchestra Bratislava, Marian Lejava conductor, recorded live April 2021
Based on an older ensemble composition and completely revised and reorchestrated. Wrath overture is a portrait of four different characters in anger: from loud barking one, through sizzling suffocation, passive aggression with ironic repetition emphasizing its senselessness to a righteous anger with a desire to change something, delaying the beginning of the change itself, expressed in the form of a complicated fugue in which each of the three voices forms a dense heterophonic structure. The work is written for a large orchestra and is another of the series of "loud" compositions. It was dedicated to all my friends in arms (of art)...

The Wrath Overture Op.28 for large orchestra (2020)

De Brevitate Vitae (Symphoniae) for large orchestra with organ was commissioned by the centenary of the Comenius University in Bratislava. It is a celebratory occasional piece in two parts about the brevity of life, hence the title. While in the first part he talks about the dreams, desires and hopes of life with a quote from Ives' famous question, the second part is a picture of the harsh reality of its brevity and frantic pace. At the end, in the form of a chorale, the famous student song with the incipits of Beethoven's canon Ars Longa Vita brevis will be heard. Just before the end, we can hear a coded message in Morse code in the xylophone part: think! So that we don't forget, otherwise we will disappear...

De Brevitate Vitae (Symphoniae) Part 1 Op.26 (2019) for large orchestra with organ

De Brevitate Vitae (Symphoniae) Part 2 Op.26 (2019) for large orchestra with organ

Milan Pala violin, Ensemble Opera Diversa, Marian Lejava conductor (live Brno, Czechia, Nov.2021)
The work was composed during one of the lockdowns of the Covid 19 pandemic in the spring of 2021 for my dear friend and artistic partner Milan Pala. He inspired me to a different poetics of the work. I chose a poem by R.M. Rilke and set it to music verse by verse - each of the three parts sets a complete stanza to music. In the second, there are small variations on Berg's theme from the concert aria Der Wein corresponding to the content of the verses. The work exists in two instrumental versions: for string orchestra and for 15 solo string instruments. At the same time, it connected me with my period of "quiet" music from 2000-2007 and significantly influenced my further composing work.

Herbsttag - Ein Dichtung (reduced version) Op.29b (2021)

Recorded live from world premiere, January 31 2018, 
Milan Pala - violin, Brno Contemporary Orchestra, Pavel Šnajdr conductor (Besední Dum, House of Brno Philharmony, Brno, Czechia)
Composed on commission by the Brno Contemporary Orchestra and the conductor Pavel Šnajdr for Milan Pala. Vertigo - the first violin concerto goes to the edge of the soloist's musical expression, who demonstrates his masterful, break-neck virtuosity and artistry. After the virtuosic super fast Prelude and the dense multi layered Fugue (which, apart from the complicated counterpoint, is intended as an Escape), the final Ayre (in memoriam Dolores O'Riordan) follows, like a heart-rending scream with the intensity of internal tension until the very end. That's why Vertigo - like the dizzying art of a soloist and emotional music inducing a feeling of vertigo.

Vertigo - concerto for violin no.1 Op.23 (2017 - 18) Premiéra 31.1.18 Pala, BCO (Besední Dum, Brno)

3rd movement of my first violin concerto Vertigo titled AYRE written to the memory of Dolores O´Riordan in the January of 2018 day after her tragic loss. Draft written during only one night in a feverish state in deep contemplation of being itself.

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