EINE SPIELDOSE for basset clarinet, basset horn and string quartet

EINE SPIELDOSE is a transcription of ‘Komm, Mein Liebe Zither’ K351 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a Lied scored originally for voice and mandolin, a short serenade in which the protagonist commits to the lightness of his zither the love message for the desired woman. In my version the original text by Mozart goes through a radical transfiguration: the mandolin part is  set for the string quartet: using the pizzicatos and the extended use of artificial harmonics it becomes a huge and fanciful carillon from which the title is derived, while the vocal part is given to the basset clarinet and the basset horn and kept faithful to the lyrical character of the source. It is a homage to the great Austrian composer, a ‘music toy’ that, with its magic machinery, stops for a moment the flow of the time. The work is a encore that the Stadler Sextet, ensemble formed by elements of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, commissioned me and that was performed during the ‘Domeniche dell’Auditorium’ in the auditorium ‘A. Toscanini’ in Turin.