SKU: HL.48022481
ISBN 9789517575591. 8.25x11.75x0.058 inches.
SKU: PR.164002390
UPC: 680160038091.
I became interested in the work of Plato through my friend and collaborator, the writer and philosopher Paul Woodruff. Paul's new translation, with Alexander Nehamas, of the Symposium gave me insights into ancient Greek ways of thinking about Love, Beauty, and Wisdom -- and managed to keep the earthy, and often bawdy side of it all in full view. But their new translation of Plato's later dialogue Phaedrus went even further: the beauty of the speeches is breathtaking, and the discourse itself is enough to keep one awake at night. Basically the Great Speech of Socrates in the Phaedrus dialogue has to do with the place of Eros in the world, and with the conflict in the soul between fleshly pleasure and philosophic discovery. I will not attempt to encapsulate this brilliant discourse in a program note: suffice it to say that reading it gave rise to my two-sided work for clarinet, violin, and piano, Phaedrus. The first movement represents the Philosophic life, and is thus subtitled Apollo's Lyre (Invocation and Hymn). It begins with an unaccompanied melody for the clarinet, which (after a pair of harp-like flourishes for the piano, expands into an accompanied canon. The voices in the dialogue (clarinet and violin) follow each other by a prescribed number of beats, but the music is totally devoid of any meter at all. The piano, representing the lyre, accompanies this lyric love-feast with repeated strummed chords. The canon has three large sections, and ends with violin echoing the unaccompanied clarinet invocation as the sound of the lyre fades. The second movement, called Dionysus' Dream-Orgy (Ritual Dance) presents, after a brief introduction, another kind of unmetered music. Rather than long lyric flights of philosophic song, however, this time we hear a unison dance of unbridled energy and sensual transport. The piece soon forms itself into a loose arch form, with contrasting metered dance sections divided by the unison unmetered orgy tune. Midway through the movement, Apollo's melody returns from the first movement, but it is a temporary reminiscence. The orgiastic dance returns, reaches a climax, and ends with a stomping of feet. While Plato asserts that a proper balance between lust and reason is necessary in all men, he (naturally) gives the nod to Philosophy as the better choice in which to live. Not so in my music: the two sides are meant to coexist and to complement each other. No sides are taken. Phaedrus was commissioned of the Verdehr Trio by Michigan State University. It is dedicated to the Vedehr Trio with great affection and admiration.
SKU: HL.49019079
ISBN 9790001178686. UPC: 884088907358. 9.0x12.0x0.103 inches.
'Privacy' means separation. The title of the trio for clarinet, violin and piano thus describes the character of the piece. The piano weaves sound tapestries of deep and long, yet fully fingered chords which increase their tempo in the course of the piece. In contrast to that, the melody of the violin is for the most part played in a very high register. It is the clarinet that fills the space between these extremes by means of trembling trills, always following the rhythm of the violin and answering to the latter like an echo.
SKU: HL.49045109
ISBN 9790001203937. 9.0x12.0x0.083 inches.
'Should muses be silent while the guns speak?' asks Jorg Widmann, who was only 20 years old when composing this piece, with his Trio for Clarinet in B flat, violin and piano, a musical essay on three tones.
SKU: HL.14021077
ISBN 9780711984707.
This work was commissioned by the Verdehr Trio and funded by Michigan State University. Includes score and parts, (the score in C). Duration: c. 18 minutes.
SKU: CF.MXE71
ISBN 9781491144749. UPC: 680160902248. 9 x 12 inches.
The day that Australian and New Zealand forces joined the Allies for an invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula of Turkey in World War I, with disastrous consequences, is celebrated in Australia as Anzac Day (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps). To honor this special day, Bresnick takes inspiration from two selected poems by Bertolt Brecht (And I Always Thought and Legend of the Unknown Soldier Beneath the Triumphal Arch). Commissioned to commemorate Australia’s Anzac Day, similar to Memorial Day, and inspired by two Brecht poems…The somber opening violin and clarinet lines unfolded to haunting effect before eventually reaching a fervent climax. --Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times.
SKU: CF.CY1157
ISBN 9780825873621. UPC: 798408073626. 11 x 14 inches.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Colgrass is best known for his symphonic works, but this lovely piece for clarinet, violin and piano contains his signature style and does not disappoint.
SKU: HL.49015516
ISBN 9781423419655. UPC: 841886002692. 9.0x12.0x0.222 inches.
Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello and piano.
SKU: PR.114416190
UPC: 680160619221. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: PR.11441619S
UPC: 680160619245. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: PR.114419820
UPC: 680160686148.
SKU: CF.CY3246
ISBN 9780825871436. UPC: 798408071431. 8.5 x 11 inches.
SKU: PR.114423340
UPC: 680160688043.
SKU: PR.114410970
UPC: 680160015825.
SKU: PR.11440531S
UPC: 680160008667. 11 x 14 inches.
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