Hér skrifar Pranav Ranjit um verk sitt sem frumflutt verður á tónleikunum:

“All for One” was written for KIMI Ensemble as part of the inaugural Hverafugl festival in Hveragerði, Iceland. The idea for the piece arose from the first composer-ensemble workshop in the percussion studio for the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. The performers discussed not only the possibilities of their own instruments but also the ways in which they could extend into the worlds of the other two, whether by producing similar sounds or by literally playing percussion instruments and singing. During these demonstrations, I quickly envisioned a work in three movements - each centered around one performer, with the other two not simply playing supporting roles but instead often wandering into the other’s domains both literally and figuratively.

This is my final work which will be performed while I am still living in Iceland, at least for the near future; the end of the third movement, which I composed first, has a distinctly Icelandic origin. That section, in which all three performers sing together, is a wordless paraphrase of the Requiem by Jón Leifs, a work which I had admired long before my studies in this country but which I now feel represents my impression of it better than any other. Alongside it, I introduce my own text in Classical Latin, a language which I once learned and have always appreciated, portraying dreamlike scenes in a similar manner to Leifs’ texts from Jónas Hallgrímsson and Icelandic folklore.

The title originates from the fundamental structure of the piece as well as from the words “all for one, one for all”, the motto of the protagonists in Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers - which, along with its sequels, I find to be one of the finest chronicles of human experience.