MATIJA KREČIČ: CUT / REZ

Classical and Modern Music

Format: CD

Code: 115820

EAN: 3838898115820

The selection of compositions for the album at hand has come up rather spontaneously at the thought of the works I wrote in the recent years.

The music, while composed for different occasions, interlinks into a whole and forms a dramaturgical arc which had appeared to me already at the first thoughts about the new album.

No Walk No Talk opens the CD, simultaneously recollecting my first "Architexture" featuring music for strings. I dedicated the piece For Lenny’s 100 to the memory of the great Leonard Bernstein on the 100th anniversary of his birth. With Prelude and Elegy, I made musical contact with baroque but at the same time continued exploring the violin — the instrument so near to me. Cut / Rez is a theatre composition of a sort — it has a clear dramaturgical design and the music functions as an illustration of an otherwise non-existent story. Tomaž Hostnik wrote the exceptional text The Butcher’s Daughter which I carefully set to music, having in mind for the song to retain its dimension and merely acquire an additional one. I conclude the album with the piece Autumnally Quiet — a befitting epilogue in its simplicity and calm.

The making process of this CD was on no few occasions troublesome and toilful. I am so grateful to everyone who stood by my side and contributed to the credit of this project. Many thanks to Katja and Mila! This album is, of course, for you... Thanks to all of my family. Thanks to the exceptional Dejan Lapanja for a yet again wonderful collaboration! Thanks to all the musicians for all the effort you have invested in the preparations and recording sessions — thank you for having breathed life into my music. Thanks to all who have in anyway helped with the project and believed in it.

Matija Krečič

January 2020

SONGS

No Walk No Talk

For Lenny’s 100

Prelude and Elegy / Preludij in elegija

Cut / Rez

Mesarja hči / The Butcher’s Daughter

Jesensko tiho / Autumnally Quiet