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Eric Ewazen
Divinities at Dawn
from Celestial Dancers
Fantasie for Flute and Piano

Theodore Presser Company
114-41462  –  Score and Part  –  $14.99
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Divinities at Dawn is inspired by the composer’s visit to the extraordinary temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, which are covered with thousands of carvings. Seeing the gleaming images of Divinities in the early morning hours inspired Ewazen’s wind ensemble suite, Celestial Dancers. Divinities at Dawn is his flute and piano adaptation of the suite’s third movement. The music portrays the early morning hours as the sun creates a golden glow on the ornate carvings with music that is soft, quiet, and mysterious – but as the sun continues to rise and gleam, the music becomes energetic and full of life with the Divinities’ dance becoming joyous and intricate with swirling musical gestures rising to the heavens.

Niccolò Paganini
La Campanella
Arranged by Denis Bouriakov
Flute and Piano

Theodore Presser Company
114-41855  –  Score and Part  –  $19.99
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Composed as the rondo finale of Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 2, La Campanella quickly took on a life of its own, being quoted by other composers in their own works even during the composer’s lifetime. The title refers to a small bell motif that recurs in the accompaniment, in dialog with the soloist. Bouriakov’s transcription for flute and piano exquisitely captures the original sparkle, levity, and intensity, in a manner that is gratifying to perform and to hear. The present transcription was included on the repertoire list for the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition.

Pablo de Sarasate
Zigeunerweisen
Arranged by Jasmine Choi
Flute and Piano

Theodore Presser Company
114-41936  –  Score and Part  –  $14.99
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Long beloved in its original scoring for violin and orchestra, Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen oozes with Hungarian soul and fire. Jasmine Choi’s flute transcription retains all the passion and sparkle in this valuable addition to the flute repertoire. Ms. Choi performs this transcription both in her own recitals and in orchestral concerto programs.

Paul Mack Somers
Flute Sonata
Flute and Piano

Maurice River Press
494-03139  –  Score and Part  –  $30.00
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A 70th birthday present for his wife, Somers' Flute Sonata is a three-movement work in A-B-A fashion. The second movement, originally scored for bass flute, was recast for C flute to retain cohesion of the Sonata as a whole. (The middle movement has also been extracted as a solo for bass flute and piano, Dark Lake - 494-03140.) The finale ("allegro energetico") is a dynamic and punchy romp to a satisfying conclusion.

Paul Mack Somers
Dark Lake
Bass Flute and Piano

Maurice River Press
494-03140  –  Score and Part  –  $20.00
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Dark Lake, the second movement of Somers' Flute Sonata is available in its original scoring for bass flute and piano. The composition of this tone poem was inspired in part by a passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Félix Boisson
Pipelette
(Triple tonguing study)
Piccolo part edited by Jean-Louis Beaumadier
Piccolo and Piano

Gérard Billaudot
524-08990  –  Score and Part  –  $16.99
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Pipelette is a representative and charming polka from the heyday of turn-of-the-last-century dance music. Subtitled “a study in triple tonguing,” Pipelette is a five-minute workout with a familiar polka tempo and a memorable melodic structure.

Fereshteh Rahbari (arr.)
Bühne Frei! (Curtain up!), Duos 2
14 middle-grade duets from the last four centuries
Two Flutes

Universal Edition
UE035307  –  Score  –  $18.95
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UE expands its series of solid repertoire for recital, for competitions, for pleasure with a second volume for flute duet. The series now includes two volumes of pieces for flute and piano, two volumes for flute duets, plus a book for flute trio and for flute quartet. This new volume contains 12 flute duets taken from works from the Baroque to the present day, from Mozart and Boismortier to R. R. Bennett and a special new piece by Maria Holzeis-Augustin. All arrangements are suitable for concert stage or for pure fun.

Michael Drapkin
Drapkin's Book of Clarinet Calisthenics
Solo Clarinet

Drapkin Music Publications
494-03146  –  Score  –  $24.00
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Drapkin has assembled a set of studies selected from Langenus and Baermann for each of three purposes: a short set (~15 minutes) for those coming back from time away, who may feel somewhat out of shape; a maintenance set (about half an hour), designed to keep you in shape; and a sixty-minute set for those working toward concert-level assurance. Drapkin very well knows that a standard study regimen is essential to confident playing and recommends working through a set each and every day.

Michael Drapkin
How to Work on Clarinet Reeds
Clarinet Text

Drapkin Music Publications
494-03147  –  Text  –  $19.95
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Drapkin details his step-by-step approach to creating the perfect reeds for his clarinet. The conversational text is amplified by photos that put you right in his workshop. All reed players should take the time to learn how to craft their own reeds. “Most clarinet players are slaves to whatever comes in the box, not realizing that just a few minutes of touch ups can make all of the difference,” says Drapkin, as he begins his process of creating the perfect reed. He discusses reed knives, various sandpapers, and how to “finish” a reed. When all is done, he even provides a troubleshooting guide for less-than-perfect reeds. This handy tome will bring you a skill that will last a lifetime.

World Music - CELTIC
Arranged by Martin Tourish
Clarinet and Piano with Play-Along CD

Universal Edition
UE037212  –  Score and Part  –  $21.50
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In celebration of Celtic music, Tourish brings to clarinetists his selection of eight easy to intermediate pieces from the British isles. Examples from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany are arranged for solo with piano accompaniment, and includes an audio CD with full recordings for listening and tracks at progressive tempi for play-along. Tourish also provides notes on each of the pieces and a discussion of style and ornamentation, available on UE's website.

James Rae
City Snapshots
One or Two Clarinet(s) and Piano with Play-Along CD

Universal Edition
UE021773  –  Piano Part  –  $18.95
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Not New Issued, but available. Note: This is the piano accompaniment insert for the clarinet and CD title City Snapshots (UE021743 - Book and CD - $18.95), released with our December 2018 new issues.

Fernande Decruck
Jazz-Toccata
Alto Saxophone and Piano

Gérard Billaudot
524-08992  –  Score and Part  –  $15.99
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Decruck (1896-1954) has penned a light, perpetual motion saxophone solo. This pleasingly melodic piece would be perfect for saxophonists of moderate skills, with a piano accompaniment that stays in the background and is undemanding.

Blockflötentrios à la carte
(Recorder Trios à la carte)
Arranged by Sylvia Corinna Rosin
Recorder Trio (SAB)

Universal Edition
UE031481  –  Score and Parts  –  $18.95
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Sylvia Corinna Rosin, arranger for the famous Ensemble Dreiklang Berlin, presents a trio of pieces with a Spanish flair, as arranged for SAB recorder trio. La Paloma, Carmela, and Albéniz' famous Tango will be familiar favorites for the audience and a quick study for intermediate to advanced players.

Daniel Dorff
Hot Spots
English Horn and Bb Clarinet

Theodore Presser Company
114-41940  –  Set of Two Performance Scores  –  $18.99
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Hot Spots was commissioned by Duo Del Sol, a married couple committed to expanding the repertoire for the ripe combination of English Horn and Bb Clarinet. Dorff’s inspiration came from the duo’s explanation of their name: “We like vacationing where it’s sunny!” That image and the group’s Spanish name led to a Caribbean influence throughout the work. The movement titles are I. Sunsplash, II. On the Beach, and III. The Bee and the Horseshoe Crab.

James Rae
Child's Play
18 First Pieces for Young Beginners
Trumpet and Piano

Universal Edition
UE021748  –  Score and Part  –  $18.50
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A great start to trumpet performance, Rae's Child's Play includes 18 pieces in very gradual progression. The first piece is crafted around a single note, with the piano part adding context and style. Additional notes are introduced through the pieces in the same manner as most major methods. Simple rhythms, small intervals, and a whole lot of encouragement have the student making music right from the start.

Manuel Hilleke
Groove Trumpet - Play-Along with the Brass Band Marshall Cooper
Trumpet with Play-Along CD

Universal Edition
UE036417  –  Score and CD  –  $24.95
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Listening to an airtight, professional brass band like Marshall Cooper can be daunting for musicians interested in entering the realm of jazz and popular music performance. Manuel Hilleke, band leader/arranger/composer, presents Groove Trumpet in hopes of making that entry a bit easier. “My aim is to use simple song and groove forms to introduce players to the basics of pop and jazz trumpet, along with section playing, articulation and phrasing techniques, soloing and improvisation." Eleven intermediate-level pieces in various styles are annotated with tips and tricks, and the audio CD includes live recordings of the Marshall Cooper brass band for play-along. Experimentation and improvisation is encouraged. Groove Trumpet is especially helpful for classical musicians who want to cross over.

Stephen Lias
River Runner
Trombone and Piano

Alias Press
494-03150  –  Score and Part  –  $21.99
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As part of his National Parks Series, River Runner brings us up close and personal with the Santa Elena Canyon of Big Bend National Park. The three movements are musical distillations of scenes along a memorable kayaking trip, from the calm waters of the Rio Grande ("Lajitas") to the awe-inspiring canyon walls ("The Sentinel") to the rapids (“Rock Slide”) encountered along the way. The 12-minute work was dedicated to trombonist Deb Scott and pianist Ron Petti.

Michael Hersch
in the snowy margins
Solo Violin

Theodore Presser Company
114-41875  –  Score  –  $14.99
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The seven-movement in the snowy margins might be considered a sort of atomic suite, as each movement is succinct, yet a microcosmic powerhouse inspired by “The Comet,” by Polish writer and Holocaust victim Bruno Schulz. Hersch’s intensity is expressed through dramatically captivating violin gestures, pushing the boundaries of texture, technique, and emotion.

Aleksey Igudesman
In My Garden, Volume 2
Violin and Piano

Universal Edition
UE037201  –  Score and Part  –  $19.95
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A "natural" followup to Igudesman's first book of In My Garden (UE037200) presents another ten easy pieces inspired by fruits and vegetables. Whether for teaching or recital, enjoy violin musings on the potato, the blueberry, the orange, radish, and zucchini, and (yes) the ubiquitous broccoli. The violin part is easy to intermediate-level, and the piano accompaniments are suitable for teacher or a fellow student of intermediate skills.

Luciano Berio
Duetti
Arrangement for Two Violas (originally for Two Violins)
Arranged by Annegret Mayer-Lindenberg

Universal Edition
UE036649  –  Score  –  $37.50
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When a violinist lamented on the dearth of violin duets, Berio instantly began the process of creating a series of short duos, each named in honor of a friend or fellow musician/composer. Over the years, this set of 34 Duetti took shape, spanning a range of skill levels. Many feature a simpler role for one player, usually with an emphasis on a particular skill or technique. In her excellent transcription for two violas, Mayer-Lindenberg points out that No. 20 uses playing techniques necessary for those preparing Berio's Sequenza VI for Viola Solo. Violists have long created their own arrangements of the original violin duos. Mayer-Lindenberg has now transcribed the complete set, retaining original keys where possible or transcribing down to accommodate the viola's range.

Stephen Lias
Electric Blue Sand
String Quintet (or String Orchestra)

Alias Press
494-03149  –  Score and Parts  –  $26.99
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A new work written for the exciting string quintet Sybarite5, Electric Blue Sand is described by Lias as "an irreverent romp for string quintet with influences of popular music." The music is indeed driving and rythmic and suited for an advanced string ensemble. Lias further says that the title (and cover photo) were taken from an incredible photo of Mars released by NASA on the day the piece was finished.

Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky
Kinderalbum
(12 Selected Pieces)
Arranged by Peer Baierlein
String Quintet or Ensemble

Universal Edition
UE037218  –  Score  –  $24.95
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Tchaikovsky was moved to give back to repertoire for beginning pianists, much as Schubert had previously done with his Album for the Young. Even keeping with an undemanding approach, he managed to craft a series of pianistic gems. Arranger Peer Baierlein, noting that string ensembles still today do not have suitable pedagogical repertoire, has crafted string quintet versions of the Kinderalbum, retaining the original atmosphere as closely as possible. These arrangements will suit less skilled string ensembles as they grow. After all, as Baierlein points out, the string quintet is the "basis of every classical orchestra," so ensemble playing is especially important. The present edition is a string quintet score. Parts are available as a free download from the UE website.

Paul Coles
Classical Guitar Album,
Volume 1 (First Steps)
(New and Well-Known Pieces)
Guitar Solo

Universal Edition
UE021675  –  Score  –  $14.95
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Coles has written a solid set of progressive pieces for pedagogical use. New techniques are gradually introduced in short solos designed to build confidence. The first volume contains 43 original beginner pieces, with some well-known melodies. The short pieces in the "First Steps" are written over six notes, total. Different techniques are gradually introduced in this progressive series, building familiarity with the instrument.

Paul Coles
Classical Guitar Album,
Volume 2 (Easy)
(New and Well-Known Pieces)
Guitar Solo

Universal Edition
UE021676  –  Score  –  $14.95
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Building upon Volume 1, the second book contains 23 original and arranged pieces for advancing guitarists (grade 2 to 3). Keys are accessible and Coles offers fingerings for both left and right hands.

Paul Coles
Classical Guitar Album,
Volume 3 (Intermediate)
(New and Well-Known Pieces)
Guitar Solo

Universal Edition
UE021677  –  Score  –  $14.95
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Volume 3 continues to offer challenges in techniques (barrés, extended stretches, string scratch, hammer on and pull off slurs, etc.). This book will take guitarists to middle grade performance levels.

Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Walzer Nr. 2
(From Suite für Varieté-Orchester)
Arranged by Michel Démarez
Four Guitars

Universal Edition
UE036748  –  Score and Parts  –  $18.95
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A fascinating new setting of the famous Shostakovich Waltz No. 2. A guitar quartet of intermediate skills can pull off an excellent audience pleaser. Make space on your concert program.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonatas, Volume 3
Edited by Peter Hauschild
Revised with Critical Notes by Jochen Reutter
Piano

Vienna Urtext
UT050429  –  Score  –  $34.95
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Newfound sources inform this revised edition of Beethoven Sonatas. Critical commentary is included to spotlight the source material, and editorial decisions are also explained. The third volume in Vienna Urtext's complete Beethoven Sonatas includes Opp.78, 79, 81a, 90, 101, 106, 109, 110, and 111.

Mike Cornick
Dinner for Two
(Five Romantic Arrangements)
Piano 4 Hands with Play-Along CD

Universal Edition
UE021455  –  Book and CD  –  $24.95
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Cornick is back with five more solid piano duet arrangements. For his "romantic" set, he has chosen Martini's Plaisir d'amour, Nola (by Felix Arndt), Santa Lucia, Fascination (instantly recognizable waltz by Fermo Marchetti), and Jerome Kern's They Didn't Believe Me. Each of these intermediate-level duets has a connection to love and romance. The included CD features full performances of all five, plus play-along tracks for both primo and secondo piano parts. Suitable for concert events or personal enjoyment.

Carter Pann
Olde English Suite
A Piece of Storied History for Piano Duet
Piano Duet

Theodore Presser Company
410-41346  –  Score  –  $18.99
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Olde English Suite explores Carter Pann’s infatuation with Edwardian English culture as popularized by Downton Abbey. Its four movements (Overture, Sarabande, Pastorale, Finale: Gallop) evoke the atmosphere and character of that elegant age. The composer notes he also had the desire to write a duet for pianos that he could have a wonderful time playing with other pianists.

Robert Russell Bennett
Three Chaucer Songs
Merciless Beauty
Edited by Janet Schlein Somers and Paul Mack Somers
Voice and String Quartet

Maurice River Press
491-00671  –  String Quartet Score and Parts  –  $35.00
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491-00670  –  Voice and Piano reduction  –  $25.00
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For the music director of His Majesty's Theatre in London, Bennett chose to set the three poems of "Merciless Beauty," ascribed to Geoffrey Chaucer, the "Father of English Literature" of "Canterbury Tales" fame. Bennett intended the work "for women's voice or voices," and it is here presented for soprano voice solo with string quartet. Bennett concurrently prepared a voice and piano version.

Stephen Lias
Songs of a Sourdough
Five Songs for Tenor and Piano

Alias Press
491-00673  –  Score  –  $19.99
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Lias describes his Songs of a Sourdough as “a vibrant and emotional song cycle ([for those] sick of the Vaughan-Williams)… a manly five-movement set.” Built on five texts by Robert Service, the songs explore life in the Yukon, with its dire struggles and wondrous rewards. Service left his upbringing in Scotland behind to sail to Western Canada to become a cowboy in the Yukon wilderness in 1894. Lias would spend years exploring our National Parks, with special affinity for Alaska. More than a century apart, these two talents would combine in Songs of a Sourdough.

Maurice Ohana
Cinq chansons populaires espagnoles
Transcribed by Jean Horreaux
Voice and Guitar

Gérard Billaudot
511-03161  –  Score  –  $30.99
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These five poems by anonymous authors were set for voice and piano by Ohana in 1987 in a collection of originally eight songs. Horreaux has transcribed five of the songs for guitar accompaniment, and includes versions of each in both high and low voices.

George Arthur
Friday Serivce II. Nunc dimittis
SATB Chorus, a cappella

Universal Edition
UE021720  –  Score  –  $2.95
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Arthur's setting of the Nunc dimittus is in two distinct sections. The opening has a quiet, almost lullaby feel, with moments of silence. The second section (doxology) becomes more involved, with shifting time signatures and increased dynamic range.

Adolphus Hailstork
Celebration!
Concert Band

Theodore Presser Company
115-40235  –  Complete Set  –  $95.00
115-40235F  –  Full Score  –  $18.00
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The years leading to the US Bicentennial (1976) saw a great flowering of artistic celebration, including the commissioning of American composers to write festive works for the occasion. The Nashville Symphony and its conductor Thor Johnson asked Adolphus Hailstork for such a work to premiere, and to distribute the music at no cost to high school orchestras around the United States. The present version for band followed as a natural offshoot of the infectiously exhilarating 3-minute work. Note: A large score (11" x 14") is also available as custom print on demand (115-40235L – Large Score; New Issue discount does not apply).

Jonathan Leshnoff
Symphony No. 4 “Heichalot”
Orchestra Study Score

Leshnoff Publishing
496-00121S  –  Study Score  –  $39.99
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Not New Issued, but available. The Nashville Symphony. The Violins of Hope. A commission of Leshnoff for a new orchestra work has led to the first recording of a performance on these historic instruments. By all accounts, a moving experience for musicians and audience alike. The Symphony No. 4 is now available in study score format. Read more about the Violins of Hope from Strings Magazine.

“The Nashville Symphony pulled out all the stops for the community-wide cultural event Violins of Hope, including the commission of a new symphony from the composer Jonathan Leshnoff. His Symphony No. 4 “Heichalot” represents a spiritual journey that has as its goal a communion with the divine. This sonic odyssey begins in the human realm, which Leshnoff depicts with music that is fast, dark and mysterious. Serene music signals a kind of heavenly arrival. For the performance, members of the first violin section played the Violins of Hope, instruments that had once belonged to Jewish musicians persecuted during the Holocaust. It gave listeners the sense of distant voices, unfairly silenced, finally being restored.” -- John Pitcher, Nashville Scene

Pierre Boulez
Dérive 2 pour 11 instruments
Chamber Ensemble Score

Universal Edition
UE037135  –  Study Score  –  $43.95
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Universal Edition presents the "last extended version" of Boulez' Dérive 2 in a 2006 revision. “When I reflected on some of Ligeti’s compositions,” wrote Boulez, “I felt the desire to dedicate myself to some almost theoretical research into periodicity in order to systematically examine its overlays, its shifts and its exchange.”

"I had the sense…that although the piece was 45 minutes long, it could either have been 20 minutes or 200 and it wouldn't really have mattered. All of the music you hear in it is based on a single chord (derived – see what I've done there? – from a musical transliteration of the initials of Paul Sacher's name). Everything changes on the surface – there are passages where everything is speeding along vertiginously, which then contract into pools of slower music – but nothing changes underneath. It's a musical world that's completely hermetic and yet infinitely expandable. Weird." -- (Tom Service on Classical Music, The Guardian)

Elizabeth Maconchy:
Music as Impassioned Argument
Edited by Christa Brüstle and Danielle Sofer
Text

Universal Edition
UE026859  –  Text  –  $35.50
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Not New Issued, but available. Studien zur Wertungsforschung, Volume 59. The editors take a deep dive into the music of Elizabeth Maconchy, a star among British composers of the 20th century. From her early studies with Vaughan Williams, her fascination with the music of Bartók, and her success on the Continent, Maconchy stood among the male dominated British musical world of Elgar, Delius, Walton, Britten, and others. “Music as Impassioned Argument” presents writings by Maconchy, herself, with others that seek to explore and enlighten her catalog of works.

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David Felder
Netivot
for String Quartet and Media

Theodore Presser Company
144-40722  –  Complete Set  –  $68.99
144-40722S  –  Score  –  $26.99
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Felder weds a string quartet with pre-recorded track for a contemplative, contemporary performance piece. Netivot was commissioned by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Felder: "The overall title refers to spiritual pathways, connections among many identifiable nodal points, or regions, each one a continuity of experiencing, not an aim in itself. The first movement works with powers of concentration and fine attention; the second movement responds to an unfolding metaphoric, imagistic landscape as a consequent of the first movement and begins to develop rudimentary song from an intonation of specific scale points and formants—musical objects as things arise and disappear; and in the last movement, the linear becomes vertical in two chorales; The third movement's title refers to pillars of cloud and of fire. Each region has its own feel, but all of the individual phrases and materials are made of the same basic stuff." (Edge of the Center, June, 2016)

Jan Krzywicki
Quartet
Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Piano

Theodore Presser Company
114-41932  –  Complete Set  –  $75.99
114-41932S  –  Score  –  $38.99
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Commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society for its Thirtieth Anniversary for the Clarosa Quartet.

“The first movement begins with detached fragments and soon turns into something cohesive and dramatic. The second movement pastorale is a beautiful interlude with glistening piano effects. The fourth movement closes the quartet with a long whirlwind at the end. Overall, Krzywicki left me with the same feeling I get from Beethoven’s late quartets — the sense that you’re in direct contact with the composer’s state of mind. Krzywicki’s feelings aren’t as conflicted as Beethoven’s but they’re just as real.” -- Tom Purdom (BroadStreetReview.com)
Listen to Movement III Toccata at New Music USA website

Jan Krzywicki
Catching Light
Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Violin, Violoncello, Percussion, Piano

Theodore Presser Company
114-41933  –  Complete Set  –  $99.99
114-41933S  –  Score  –  $42.99
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Commissioned by Network for New Music (Linda Reichert, Artistic Director) for its Thirtieth Anniversary Season. Composer Jan Krzywicki is on the faculty at Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance, and conductor of the new music ensemble, Network for New Music. “His music radiates a virtuosic craft and flowing lyricism that emphasizes the blending of color shading in instrumental and vocal timbres, and the illusion of light in music.” (Albany Records)