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| | Malbork I |
 | | Malbork I is the first of a loose series of chamber music pieces being connected to the work of Italo Calvino - respectively the first of these pieces that has a, however well hidden, reference to Calvino already in its title. |
 | | In the case of Malbork I this means that, besides the quotations and variations of preceding and futural material, the instruments are continuously grouped to smaller formations telling "their own stories" while always remaining connected to the altogether development of the composition. |
 | | Thus, the sextet Malbork I is at the same time a net of six partly independent monologues, their timbre being mostly tender, differentiated, sometimes fragile, but never lamenting. |
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