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Aethelred's Exit for Bass Clarinet Solo
taken from the ending of Richard Wilson's comic opera AETHELRED THE UNREADY--at which point the hero has driven away his tormentors and sinks into a state of blissful relief.
performed by Benjamin Fingland
Clarinet Quintet played by DECODA
Moran Katz, clarinets
Anna Elashvili and Owen Dalby, violins
Nathan Schram, viola
Yves Dharamraj, cello
for clarinet quartet, was composed in 2016 and dedicated to clarinetist Larry Guy, a long-term colleague and friend. An additional movement was added in 2017, V. DeCh, dedicated to our friend Jacqueline deChollet. It uses only the pitches D, E, C, and B (=H in German).
Line Drawings, for two clarinets
Larry Guy and David Krakauer
In four movements: Memory Action Portrait Celebration
Takes its inspiration from the body of pen-and-ink drawings by the late American painter Philip Guston, and from discussions with that artist, a friend of the composer's, about the point of such drawings.
Setting of Lucy Miller Murray's Poem On the Death of Juan Gelman
Courtenay Budd, soprano
Moran Katz, clarinet
Richard Wilson, piano
Mary Ann Hart, mezzo-soprano
Richard Lalli, baritone
Allen Blustine, clarinet
Richard Wilson, piano
