"Geamparale" - this is a piece for marimba, drums and cymbals, largely based on rhythms of a Romanian folk dance from Dobrogea - "geamparale". Geamparale is usually a fairly "wild" dance in a fast 7 (2+2+3). I always found it very exciting - and I'm sure I'll inspire myself from it again occasionally. Actually even this piece is "inspired" in turn from the last movement of my violin concerto - which I haven't finished orchestrating yet, I'm afraid - and which is also based on the same dance: geamparale.
The middle section has nothing to do with the dance though - it is total, complete contrast: slow, quiet, "regular", "inevitable".
The writing for the marimba is often with a cimbalom in mind.
The drums are usually used to either help establish the dance rhythm, or in a dialogue with the marimba, question and answer. 
 
This is the first time I write a piece for solo percussion (1 player); I wrote for percussion before, but as part of an ensemble. It's a different challenge writing a solo piece... I tried to pay very much attention to not make it impossible for 4 sticks - not to have them too far apart, to give time for changes, etc. But it is all in my mind - I am not a percussionist, and I need to imagine more or less how instruments are positioned, distances, etc. I need to go over it with a percussionist colleague!
This is a computer demo. The dynamics were not always entirely successful to set up. It should be better in a real performance.

Geamparale

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Geamparale

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