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Clarinet Quintet
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Clarinet Quintet (2006, rev. 2008)
Premiered in October 2008, by Lontano, at the Second London Festival of American Music.
Duration: circa 10 minutes
Instrumentation: Clarinet (Bb), Violin (2), Viola, Cello
Excerpt recorded live by New Fromm Players.
Program Notes:
The introduction delivers fluid melodic lines by the clarinet with a string accompaniment where objecits are replicated in different time-scales. As the combined register of the ensemble expands, a new object, more angular in design, unfolds on a harmonically stable background of crossed arcs.
The second section re-takes the previously heard background design, this time at a slower tempo, providing the grounds for new melodic material in an expressive, intimate clarinet solo. The third section imposes a uncompromisingly energetic mood setting the clarinet in a vibrant rhythmic dialogue with the strings. The fourth section, again on a slow tempo, is contemplative in nature and the darkest in character, one last moment of introspection before the following section. In the fifth section each member of the ensemble will weave at different times the melodic path through a competitive heterophonic discourse. The closing section returns the listener to the original motive heard during the introduction.
Premiered in October 2008, by Lontano, at the Second London Festival of American Music.
Duration: circa 10 minutes
Instrumentation: Clarinet (Bb), Violin (2), Viola, Cello
Excerpt recorded live by New Fromm Players.
Program Notes:
The introduction delivers fluid melodic lines by the clarinet with a string accompaniment where objecits are replicated in different time-scales. As the combined register of the ensemble expands, a new object, more angular in design, unfolds on a harmonically stable background of crossed arcs.
The second section re-takes the previously heard background design, this time at a slower tempo, providing the grounds for new melodic material in an expressive, intimate clarinet solo. The third section imposes a uncompromisingly energetic mood setting the clarinet in a vibrant rhythmic dialogue with the strings. The fourth section, again on a slow tempo, is contemplative in nature and the darkest in character, one last moment of introspection before the following section. In the fifth section each member of the ensemble will weave at different times the melodic path through a competitive heterophonic discourse. The closing section returns the listener to the original motive heard during the introduction.