“I CHING - IV. Towards Completion: Fire over Water” - by Per Nørgård

Kolberg Percussion Newcomer Artist Grzegorz Chwaliński performs the 4th movement of the percussion solo “I CHING” - IV. Towards Completion: Fire over Water by Per Nørgård. Recorded 2021 in Germany. Played on the instruments and the combination stand system by Kolberg Percussion.
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THE PIECE
"I Ching (The Book of Changes), four movements for solo percussion, was written in 1982 and dedicated to the Danish percussionist Gert Mortensen. I Ching is the thousand-year-old Chinese oracle book, whose 64 combinations of six “Yang” or “Yin” lines (bright or dark) represent 64 different states of being for all living things including human beings. The 64 states of being should be thought of as an eternal, hidden cycle which lies behind everything that we do: for example the supreme, the enthusiastic, initiative (combination or “hexagram” no. 1, the creative) or the despair of the moment, the warm and friendly, and so on. The states of being exist on all levels - the official, the private etc. - at the same time in many speeds. From these I selected four, the sequence of which progresses from a situation from which there is apparently no solution, to a (temporary) relief.
In the first movement ´Thunder repeated, the Image of Shock´, a vicious circle of claustrophobic, closed circuits is represented by the tom-tom part. This is followed by tam-tams and wood sounds, but returns full-circle to the tom-toms.
The second movement ´The taming Power of the small´has its origins in the violence of the first movement, but this time lets it resolve in a long glide upwards which stars with voice sounds ´borrowed´from the Beatles´´Revolution no 9´which are then transmitted to the other instruments.
The third movement is ´The Gentle, The Penetrating´in which lyrical poetry dominates with gentle bell-like sounds and delicate tunes.
Finally the sovereign, many-layered world of rhythm triumphs in the fourth movement: ´Towards Completion. Fire over Water´, the main movement of the work."
I. Thunder Repeated: The Image of Shock (hexagram no. 51)
II. The Taming Power of the Small - 9 sounds (hexagram no. 9)
III. The Gentle, the Penetrating (hexagram no. 57)
IV. Towards Completion: Fire over Water (hexagram no. 64)
Per Nørgård (1982)
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GRZEGORZ CHWALIŃSKI
Grzegorz Chwaliński is a Polish multi-percussionist who impresses with his extraordinary musical expressiveness as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician on stages all over the world.
Even at a young age, his work is marked by numerous international competition successes. In 2015, Grzegorz Chwaliński was a first and second prize winner at the "Italy Percussion Competition" in Montesilvano, Italy. In 2016, he was a first and second prize winner at the "International Percussion Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia". In 2017, this was followed by a Grand Prix win at the 1st National Percussion Competition of the Artistic Education Center Kielce in Poland. In 2018 he received the prestigious artistic scholarship "Young Poland" from the Polish Minister of Culture. In 2019 he achieved the 3rd prize at the "Majaoja International Percussion Competition" in Finland.
In 2021 he was selected as a soloist for the "World Percussion Group". Furthermore, he has been a newcomer artist of "Kolberg Percussion" since this year.
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KOLBERG PERCUSSION
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Customers include the world's most prominent soloists, orchestras and colleges.
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