Spiritual Concerto – I Want to Die Easy

The Spiritual Concerto for violin and string orchestra by Helmut W. May has everything that is necessary to become a repertory piece for young violin soloists: of medium difficulty, well realizable in the accompaniment, rewarding, despite the contemporary tonal language that creates a deep poetic background with the help of individual sounds, simple technical means and at times with vigour full of brio. The concerto is characterized by the spiritual “I want to die easy” which leads to a new, formally unconventional world of music both as to melody and as to contents: Afro-American features merge with European concerto tradition.