Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.114422690 Composed by Stacy Ga...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
PR.114422690
Composed
by Stacy Garrop. Sws. Set
of Score and Parts. 8+2+2
pages. Duration 5
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-42269.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114422690).
UPC:
680160684809. 9 x 12
inches.
In 2014, I
enjoyed a wonderful
residence at the Ucross
Foundation in
Clearmont, Wyoming.
Ucross is an artist
colony that gives
writers, composers, and
visual artists
the gift of time,
space, and support to
follow their artistic
pursuits; we are provided
with studio space,
housing, and meals so
that we can work
continuously on our
projects. I have been
in residence at numerous
artist colonies; however,
nothing in my
previous experiences
prepared me for living in
such isolated, wild
country. Ucross is
situated on
a 20,000-acre cattle
ranch at nearly 4,000
feet in elevation with
fewer than 150
people living within
the town. But what
Clearmont lacks in
population, it makes up
for abundantly and
spectacularly in
wilderness and wildlife.
I composed the sextet
Postcards from Wyoming
to offer three glimpses
of what I found to be the
most striking aspects
of my residence. The
Solitude of Stars, the
third and final movement
of the original
sextet, was inspired
by the stunning nightly
display of the heavens
above. Without city
lights dimming the
night sky, countless
stars shone brightly over
the vast expanse of the
prairie. This edition
is part of The Solitude
of Stars Project that I
undertook during the
2020 COVID-19
pandemic, which consists
of a series of
arrangements that I made
for colleagues and
friends. In 2014, I
enjoyed a wonderful
residence at the Ucross
Foundation in Clearmont,
Wyoming. Ucross is an
artist colony that gives
writers, composers, and
visual artists the gift
of time, space, and
support to follow their
artistic pursuits; we are
provided with studio
space, housing, and meals
so that we can work
continuously on our
projects. I have been in
residence at numerous
artist colonies; however,
nothing in my previous
experiences prepared me
for living in such
isolated, wild country.
Ucross is situated on a
20,000-acre cattle ranch
at nearly 4,000 feet in
elevation with fewer than
150 people living within
the town. But what
Clearmont lacks in
population, it makes up
for abundantly and
spectacularly in
wilderness and wildlife.
I composed the sextet
Postcards from Wyoming to
offer three glimpses of
what I found to be the
most striking aspects of
my residence. The
Solitude of Stars, the
third and final movement
of the original sextet,
was inspired by the
stunning nightly display
of the heavens above.
Without city lights
dimming the night sky,
countless stars shone
brightly over the vast
expanse of the prairie.
This edition is part of
The Solitude of Stars
Project that I undertook
during the 2020 COVID-19
pandemic, which consists
of a series of
arrangements that I made
for colleagues and
friends. In 2014, I
enjoyed a wonderful
residence at the Ucross
Foundation in
Clearmont,Wyoming. Ucross
is an artist colony that
gives writers, composers,
and visual artists
thegift of time, space,
and support to follow
their artistic pursuits;
we are provided
withstudio space,
housing, and meals so
that we can work
continuously on our
projects. I havebeen in
residence at numerous
artist colonies; however,
nothing in my
previousexperiences
prepared me for living in
such isolated, wild
country. Ucross is
situated on a20,000-acre
cattle ranch at nearly
4,000 feet in elevation
with fewer than 150
peopleliving within the
town. But what Clearmont
lacks in population, it
makes up forabundantly
and spectacularly in
wilderness and wildlife.
I composed the sextet
Postcardsfrom Wyoming to
offer three glimpses of
what I found to be the
most striking aspects
ofmy residence. The
Solitude of Stars, the
third and final movement
of the original
sextet,was inspired by
the stunning nightly
display of the heavens
above. Without city
lightsdimming the night
sky, countless stars
shone brightly over the
vast expanse of the
prairie.This edition is
part of The Solitude of
Stars Project that I
undertook during the
2020COVID-19 pandemic,
which consists of a
series of arrangements
that I made forcolleagues
and friends.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.164002390 Composed by Dan W...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
PR.164002390
Composed
by Dan Welcher. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 1995. 26+14+14
pages. Duration 14
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00239.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(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.
Trans
figured Life - Still
Life, Op. 165 (violin and
piano) - David
Braid
I am keen on
concise musical forms
such as Prelude and
Fugue, where there is one
clear straightforward
idea, followed by another
that is more involved and
developed.
In
keeping with that idea,
this work consists of two
distinct pieces, the
first - Transfigured Life
- aims to draw in the
listener with its quick,
dancing rhythm and
simple, melodic violin
part. It 'transfigures'
via a few short solo
piano interludes into
just two alternating
notes to end - which are
the core of the original
idea, now made clear by
clearing everything else
out of the
way.
The second
piece - Still Life -
retains its sense of
stillness through an
uncomplicated piano line
that gives lots of space
for the violin's
contrasting (but again
simple) part. As an
absolute, not
programmatic, piece the
title refers to the
atmospheric colour and
pacing only; it's up to
the listener to see
'Still life' of their
choosing in their own
mind.
A note on
performance: Despite
my reference to 'simple'
lines, and the work's
determined avoidance of
mainstream modernist
squeak - the work has
certain performance
challenges of phrasing
and ensemble that
requires considerable
skill and musicianship.
The work has had the
privilege of being
recently recorded by
violinist Ezgi
Sarıkcıoğlu and
pianist Rossitza
Stoycheva, and is
available on all major
platforms:
Violon et Piano [Set de Parties séparées] Carl Fischer
(Three Pictures of Chassidic Life) Composed by Ernest Bloch (1880-1959). Set of ...(+)
(Three Pictures of
Chassidic Life) Composed
by Ernest Bloch
(1880-1959). Set of
performance parts for
violin and piano. With
bowings and fingerings.
14 pages. Published by
Carl Fischer.
Composed by Camille Saint- Saens (1835-1921). Edited by Celine Dreze. This edit...(+)
Composed by Camille
Saint-
Saens (1835-1921). Edited
by
Celine Dreze. This
edition:
urtext edition. Stapled.
Barenreiter Urtext.
Transcription for Violin
and
Piano by the Composer.
Performance score, Part
(1).
Opus 40. Baerenreiter
Verlag
#BA10941. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.414411630 Composed by Shulamit...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
PR.414411630
Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
28+28+20+24+20+24 pages.
Duration 20 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#414-41163. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.414411630).
ISBN
9781491114551. UPC:
680160089956. 9.5 x 13
inches.
EXCURSIONS
is a one-movement work
exploring two
“characters.â€
A rhapsodic, descending
passage is introduced by
the cello, followed by
a static,
chorale-like phrase for
the violin and cello.
Their individual
developments are
separated by a slow,
contrasting middle
section. The composer has
written: “This is
analogous to situations
in life: we stand by a
crossroad, choosing one
option and forfeiting the
other. But in art, the
realm of the imagination,
we can perhaps afford to
pursue more than one
route to its ultimate
destination… or can
we? It is symbolic that
in this work both roads
eventually lead to the
same
place.â€. Excursi
ons for violin, cello and
piano, is a one-movement
work of tripartite
structure in which
materials explored in the
first of three large
sections are brought back
in the last section.Â
The traditional
statement-contrast-restat
ement form, which is
readily suggested by such
a description, is,
however, not at all in
the mold in which the
work is cast. Rather,
my aim was to subject the
essential materials of
the piece (two
“charactersâ€
–the rhapsodic,
descending passage played
by the cello in the very
opening and, later, a
static, slow moving,
chorale-like phrase for
the violin and cello) to
two entirely different
developments separated by
a slow, contrasting
middle section. This
is analogous to an
exploration of the
ramifications that two
divergent choices made by
the same person might
lead to. In life, as
we stand by a crossroad,
choosing one option
usually means having to
forfeit the other.Â
But in art, the realm of
the imagination, we can
perhaps afford to pursue
more than one route to
its ultimate
destination…or can
we? It is, I believe,
symbolic that in this
work both roads
eventually lead to the
same place: in composing
Excursions, it seemed
absolutely inescapable
that at the end the slow,
contrasting middle
sections – both
more resigned and
peaceful than the
battling spirits of the
outer parts –
should return briefly to
end the work. The
piano trio combination
(once highly favored, but
to this composer still as
challenging today) is
approached here as a
collaborative effort of
three equal soloists
– partners. Of
the available pairings,
the two strings find
themselves occasionally
approached as a team
pitted against the
piano. The
cello-piano combination
is also not uncommon
here, and there is an
extended violin cadenza
toward the end of the
piece. The writing
for the three instruments
is closely and at times
interlinked, but the
players are all
instructed to play from
scores. Excursions was
first performed at
Brandeis University in
1982.
Violin, piano SKU: FG.55011-466-1 Composed by Armas Jarnefelt. Fennica Ge...(+)
Violin, piano
SKU:
FG.55011-466-1
Composed by Armas
Jarnefelt. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-466-1.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-466-1).
ISBN
9790550114661.
Arma
s Jarnefelt (1869-1958)
was a Finnish composer
and conductor. Jarnefelt
studied in Berlin in
1890-91 with Albert
Becker as his teacher. In
addition to composing
studies, Jarnefelt fully
enjoyed the life that a
bustling metropolis could
offer to a young man -
concerts, operas, cafe
life etc. Romanze,
composed for Geraldine
Morgan, was premiered in
Helsinki in February
1892. According to
critics (notably Bis
Wasenius) the work was
un-Finnish, perhaps
echoing the continental
winds Jarnefelt had
experienced in Berlin.
That aside, Jarnefelt's
future brother-in-law,
Jean Sibelius, analyzed
the Romanze in a letter
to his fiancee, Aino,
sister of Armas: I think
Romanze is a fine
technical accomplishment,
even the structure works
well, given the theme as
it is. But Armas
certainly can do better
than this, he should not
waste his efforts in
small-scale [salon]
music. - Armas will find
his own way and will be
hailed as the greatest
musician of this
country..
(Violin and Piano Heifetz Collection). Composed by Henri Wieniawski (1835-1880)....(+)
(Violin and Piano Heifetz
Collection). Composed by
Henri Wieniawski
(1835-1880). For Violin,
Piano Accompaniment. LKM
Music. Lauren Keiser
Music Publishing
#S511020. Published by
Lauren Keiser Music
Publishing
Composed by Camille Saint- Saens (1835-1921). Edited by Fabien Guilloux and Fra...(+)
Composed by Camille
Saint-
Saens (1835-1921). Edited
by
Fabien Guilloux and
François
de Médicis. This
edition:
Edition of selected
works,
Urtext edition. Linen.
Saint-
Saens, Camille. OEuvres
instrumentales completes
III/4. Edition of
selected
works, Performance score,
anthology. Baerenreiter
Verlag
#BA10304-01. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
Chamber Music violin, piano SKU: CF.FE192 Composed by Louise Talma. Set o...(+)
Chamber Music violin,
piano
SKU:
CF.FE192
Composed by
Louise Talma. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 18+8
pages. Carl Fischer Music
#FE192. Published by Carl
Fischer Music (CF.FE192).
ISBN 9780825877568.
UPC: 798408077563. 9.5 x
13 inches.
The
Pytheas Center for
Contemporary Music notes:
Talma was the first woman
to receive two
Guggenheims, the first
woman elected to the
National Institute of
Arts and Letters (1974),
the first American woman
to have a full-scale
opera performed in
Germany, the first
American to teach at
Fontainebleau, and the
first woman to receive
the Sibelius Medal for
composition. This is only
the highlights of a long
life of composing. Talma
spent a good amount of
time at the MacDowell
Colony, where she wrote
many of her finest works,
including the Violin
Sonata. Having studied
composition with Nadia
Boulanger over 17 summers
in her youth, Talma
dedicated the Sonata to
her former teacher and
long-time friend on the
occasion of Boulanger's
75th birthday. The single
movement reflects Talma's
style in 1962, with more
than a passing nod to
12-tone construction. For
advanced performers.
Duration: 16'.
Violin and Piano (Violin/Piano) SKU: HL.14043856 Composed by Howard Blake...(+)
Violin and Piano
(Violin/Piano)
SKU:
HL.14043856
Composed
by Howard Blake. Arranged
by David Mather. Music
Sales America.
TV-Film-Musical-Show.
Softcover. Composed 2005.
Chester Music #CH76901.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14043856).
ISBN
9781849385626.
R
aymond Briggs' charming
Christmas story about the
adventures of a boy and
the snowman that comes to
life is a modern
children's classic. The
tales popularity has been
further enhanced by
frequent television
broadcasts of
theaward-winning cartoon
film The
Snowman.
In this suite for
Violin and Piano,
composer Howard Blake
recreated the story in
music based on the scenes
from the film. The music
includes the hit
songWalking In The
Air.
Violin, piano SKU: BR.EB-9386 Urtext. Composed by Joachim Raff. So...(+)
Violin, piano
SKU:
BR.EB-9386
Urtext. Composed
by Joachim Raff. Solo
instruments. Edition
Breitkopf. Sonata;
Romantic. Sheet Music.
Duration 27'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 9386.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9386).
ISBN 9790004188569. 0
x 0 inches.
The
Violin Sonata No. 1 in E
minor, op. 73, a Grand
Sonata for Violin and
Piano, occupies an
important position in
Joachim Raff's oeuvre: it
reflects numerous
artistic, aesthetic,
biographical, and
reception-historical
aspects characteristic of
Raff. The work was
composed in Weimar in
1854, when Raff was going
through a process of
artistic self-discovery.
He increasingly distanced
himself from his mentor
Franz Liszt and
intensively explored
Wagner as well as the
ideal of absolute music -
this is also reflected in
the music of the sonata.
While Raff described the
first two movements as
objectified, he perceived
the last two movements as
a piece of him, that is,
not free of extra-musical
influences.The 1st
movement, with its
expansive main theme, is
reminiscent of
Mendelssohn; the 2nd
movement reveals the
refinement of
classical-romantic work
with musical material.
The 3rd movement, with
its partly rhythmic,
virtuoso accompanying
figures and harmonically
advanced passages, allows
a deeply romantic, almost
tormented insight into a
soul life a la Sturm und
Drang. The partly
irascible last movement
revisits already familiar
themes and thus creates a
musical framework.In
collaboration with the
Joachim-Raff-Archiv
Lachen (CH)
First
Urtext Edition of the
Grand Sonata for Violin
and Piano.
Violin and Piano SKU: HL.14003914 Composed by A.C. MacKenzie. Music Sales...(+)
Violin and Piano
SKU:
HL.14003914
Composed
by A.C. MacKenzie. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. Music
Sales #NOV120038.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14003914).
8.25x11.75x0.058
inches.
Benedictus
is a work of depth and
feeling that some
listeners claim
'out-Elgars
Elgar.'Composer,
conductor and educator
Alexander MacKenzie is
perhaps best known for
his Choral works and his
works inspired by
Scottish melodies and
themes, as in this
well-known work
Benedictus . Benedictus
is extracted from
Benedictus is a work of
depth and feeling that
some listeners claim
'out-Elgars
Elgar.'Composer,
conductor and educator
Alexander MacKenzie is
perhaps best known for
his Choral works and his
works inspired by
Scottish melodies and
themes, as in this
well-known work
Benedictus . Benedictus
is extracted from Six
Pieces for Violin and is
dedicated to Lady Halle.
During hislifetime - 1847
to 1935 - MacKenzie's
programmatic
Scottish-inflected work
was extremely popular,
and he is regarded as one
of those who set the
scene for the British
musical renaissance of
the late 19th century.
and is dedicated to Lady
Halle. During his
lifetime - 1847 to 1935 -
MacKenzie's programmatic
Scottish-inflected work
was extremely popular,
and he is regarded as one
of those who set the
scene for the British
musical renaissance of
the late 19th
century.
Violin and Piano SKU: BT.EMBZ213 Little Pieces for Violin and Piano(+)
Violin and Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ213
Little
Pieces for Violin and
Piano. Composed by
Bela Bartok. EMB Music of
Bela Bartok. Educational
Tool. Book Only. Composed
1951. 20 pages. Editio
Musica Budapest #EMBZ213.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ213).
Violin - advanced to difficult SKU: HL.49019054 Violin and Piano. ...(+)
Violin - advanced to
difficult
SKU:
HL.49019054
Violin
and Piano. Composed
by Johanna Senfter.
Edited by Wolfgang
Birtel. Arranged by
Friedemann Eichhorn. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Softcover. Op.
100. 48 pages. Schott
Music #VLB122. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49019054).
ISBN
9790001147828.
On
11 August 2011 it is
fifty years since the
death of the composer
Johanna Senfter from
Oppenheim who actually
was a trained violinist
for she had studied with
renowned violinists at
the Hoch Conservatory in
Frankfurt. No wonder that
she dealt with the solo
violin repertoire her
whole life long. Concert
works with orchestral
accompaniment as well as
chamber music works were
the results of her
compositional endeavours,
and she attended to both
the large and the small
form. Apart from sonatas
deeply rooted in the
Romantic tradition,
Johanna Senfter also
wrote '5 Stucke' Op. 100
for violin with piano
accompaniment. They are
five miniatures which
combine to form a kind of
sonatina, while
nevertheless being quite
equal to its big sister,
the sonata, as regards
playing and compositional
technique. A musically
demanding, yet rewarding
work by the Reger
pupil.
Violin and Piano - Intermediate-Advanced SKU: FP.FPT05 Composed by Thomas...(+)
Violin and Piano -
Intermediate-Advanced
SKU: FP.FPT05
Composed by Thomas
Pitfield. Sheet Music and
Books. The newly released
2nd violin sonata by
respected 20th Century
British composer, Thomas
Pitfield. Classical.
Score and part. Forsyths
Publications #FPT05.
Published by Forsyths
Publications (FP.FPT05).
ISBN
9790570504275.
Thom
as Pitfield had a gift
for memorable tunes,
often couched in somewhat
French-sounding harmonic
and decorative idiom. He
admired Vaughan Williams,
Grainger and Delius and
their influence can be
felt in his
works.
This second
violin sonata has been
long unpublished, but is
now released by Forsyth
Publishing to mark 25
years since his passing
in 1999 and the
publication of a new
biography of his
life.
By Juliette Marie Olga (Lili) Boulanger (1893-1918). For Violin and Piano. Strin...(+)
By Juliette Marie Olga
(Lili) Boulanger
(1893-1918). For Violin
and Piano. String -
Violin and Piano. Faber
Edition. Masterwork.
Published by Faber Music
Chamber Music violin, piano SKU: PR.114418650 A Klezmer Concerto. ...(+)
Chamber Music violin,
piano
SKU:
PR.114418650
A
Klezmer Concerto.
Composed by Noah
Bendix-Balgley. Arranged
by Samuel Adler. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 48+28
pages. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41865.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114418650).
UPC:
680160642977. 9.5 x 13
inches.
Bendix-Balg
ley is a major young
talent, currently serving
as first concertmaster in
the Berlin Philharmonic.
Klezmer music was a
background for his
childhood and has been an
influence in his life
ever since. Upon writing
his very own Klezmer
Concerto, Bendix-Balgley
was delighted to have the
master of orchestration,
Samuel Adler, produce
performance versions for
both full orchestra and a
fully-realized piano
reduction. Formerly
concertmaster with the
Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra, Bendix-Balgley
performed the premiere of
this PSO-commissioned
work in June, 2016 with
the PSO, Maestro Manfred
Honeck conducting.
Adler's piano reduction
of the work is now
available.
Violin SKU: HL.48180261 For Violin and Piano. Composed by George F...(+)
Violin
SKU:
HL.48180261
For
Violin and Piano.
Composed by George
Frideric Handel. Arranged
by Georges Catherine.
Leduc. Baroque.
Softcover. 6 pages.
Alphonse Leduc #AL17008.
Published by Alphonse
Leduc (HL.48180261).
UPC: 888680846213.
9.75x12.5
inches.
G.F. Handel
(1685-1759) is considered
as one of the greatest
composers to have ever
lived. Therefore, when
violinist, Georges
Catherine arranged
Short March for
violin and piano, it was
very well-received.
G.F.Handel was a
German-born baroque
composer who spent the
majority of his life in
England. His works remain
ever popular to this day
and Catherine's
transcription of Short
March for violin and
piano ensure that the
composer's much loved
works are more
accessible. For all
violinists, this
Catherine arrangement of
Handel's Short
March is
essential.
Piano Accompaniment; Violin (Violin/Piano) SKU: HL.48025035 Violin and...(+)
Piano Accompaniment;
Violin (Violin/Piano)
SKU: HL.48025035
Violin and Piano.
Composed by Brett Dean.
Boosey & Hawkes Chamber
Music. Classical.
Softcover. 52 pages.
Duration 1020 seconds.
Bote & Bock #M202535639.
Published by Bote & Bock
(HL.48025035).
ISBN
9783793142607. UPC:
196288020790.
9.0x12.0x0.171
inches.
With Berlin
Music, Brett Dean wrote a
threefold homage: to the
classical duo consisting
of violin and piano; to
the violin virtuoso
Midori, for whom the
piece was written; and to
the city of Berlin, where
he lived between the
mid-1980s and 2000 and
whose rich cultural life
he owes much to his
development as a musician
and composer. The first
four, relatively short
movements of the
five-movement work form a
suite of character
pieces, which is followed
by a longer final
movement. In summary,
this turns out to be the
actual main movement from
which all motifs and
harmonies emerged in a
compositional manner.
This includes tuning down
the G side by a whole
tone - an apparently
small difference, but one
that has a major effect
on the timbre and
resonance of the
instrumentand suddenly
makes previously
impossible interval
sequences playable. In
addition, the violin in
the third movement (a
moto perpetuo in which
Dean bows to Ravel's
violin sonata) has to
play with a practice
damper, while the pianist
changes the instrument
and plays on a standing
piano that is dampened by
a pedal and placed next
to the concert grand
Expressing nervous energy
in tight college
spaces.