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Three
Short Stories for viola (clarinet) & bassoon (violoncello)
(all three movements are published as one edition) |
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Uncle Bebop 2. Rays of Light 3. Latin Dance |
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Composed in: | 2000 | ||||
| Instrumentation: | viola (clarinet) & bassoon (violoncello) | |||||
| Duration: | 3.5 minutes | |||||
| Publisher: | Doblinger Music Publishers, Vienna, Austria. Available in 3 versions: viola & bassoon (Cat. # 06 710), clarinet & bassoon (cat. # 36 605) and viola & violoncello (cat. # 03 470). Individual parts are available for clarinet (Cat. # 36 605 KL) and violoncello (Cat. # 06 710 VC) | |||||
| Premiere Performance: | 10/09/2000 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. Brian Dembow, viola and Judith Farmer, bassoon. | |||||
| CD Recording: | Gernot Wolfgang, "Short Stories", Albany Records TROY1248 | |||||
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Score and parts are available through Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc. (click for versions: viola & bassoon, clarinet and bassoon, call 818-994-1902 for the version for viola & violoncello, the clarinet part and the violoncello part), your local music store, or can be downloaded in pdf format at music2print (click for versions: viola & bassoon, clarinet & bassoon, viola & violoncello). |
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REVIEWS: |
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Josef Woodard, Santa Barbara Independent "In the contemporary corner was film composer Gernot Wolfgang's engaging and inventive duo for clarinet and bassoon - Three Short Stories, written in 2000 for his wife, SBCO bassoonist Judith Farmer. Farmer and clarinetist Michael Grego navigated Wolfgang's inviting and strongly jazz-tinged score with precision and a hearty sense of swing ... " Ronald Klimko, The Double Reed "Wow! Composer Gernot Wolfgang has written another "keeper" of a work here for the unlikely combination of viola and bassoon! ... As is the case with his other chamber works, Gernot's compositional style draws heavily on the elements of jazz and widely expanded traditional harmony ... The three movements: Uncle Bebop, Rays of Light and Latin Dance, follow the traditional fast-slow-fast format and forms for the most part, but as with his other works, are immediately captivating for their expressiveness and excellent, interesting musical ideas that draw the listener right in ... I cannot recommend this work strongly enough to you - a true "keeper". Barnaby Rayfield, Fanfare Magazine "The juxtaposition of viola and bassoon makes for a plangent clash of textures and ideas ... " Ray Tischer, The Inner Voice (newsletter of the Southern California Viola Society) "This major work for viola and bassoon in roughly 10 minutes presents sensuous melodic lines and sumptuous harmonies that are not traditionally tonal but easily accessible. The haunting feeling of this piece shows a strong jazz influence in its effective cross-rhythms and intricate counterpoint. The form is at once clear, concise and emotionally powerful." Bill Peters, Petersmusicnews.com " ... [this piece has] an orchestral sound that defies that there are only two instruments." |
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