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5018581-051B5a-635212052426.Pdf AARON JAY KERNIS AARON JAY KERNIS DREAMSONGS THREE CONCERTOS THREE CONCERTOS Dreamsongs (2013) movement and is often featured in it. I don’t know of many cello pieces that concentrate on Dreamsongs (2013) 1. Floating Dreamsongs pizzicato playing as much as this movement, 1 I. Floating Dreamsongs [13.01] 2. Kora Song and the playing style was developed in close 2 II. Kora Song [13.04] Joshua Roman cello collaboration with the soloist. The music While Dreamsongs is a concerto for cello and frequently changes direction and features a Viola Concerto (2013-14) chamber orchestra, it doesn’t take on the number of cello cadenzas of smaller and larger 3 I. Braid [5.47] forms of older concerti. Rather than the almost size, sometimes with the West African djembe 4 II. Romance [7.04] ubiquitous three movement layout– Fast-Slow- 5 III. A Song My Mother Taught Me [19.47] drum. Overall it has a gentle exuberance and is Paul Neubauer viola Fast - it has only two movements, both of lighter in tone and more energetic than in the which mix slow and fast with dramatic and opening movement. Concerto with Echoes (2009) lyrical sections. The first,Floating Dreamsongs 6 I. Lontano; Tocatta: Molto allegro [3.39] 7 II. Slowly [7.57] is mostly slow and airy, and is built as a group Dreamsongs is written for the generous and 8 III. Aria – dolente, grazioso [4.48] of continuously developing variations on the virtuosic playing of cellist Joshua Roman, who intimate music from its opening and 1st I’ve known for a number of years, and has been 9 Tumbalalaika Traditional Yiddish, arr. Aaron Jay Kernis [0.56] variation with strings, harp and vibraphone. my neighbor in New York City until recently. Paul Neubauer viola, Aaron Jay Kernis piano The consonant harmonies become spooked It is dedicated to him. It was co-commissioned 0 Fughetta, Op. 32 No. 4 Robert Schumann [1.49] and furtive, building into tremulous marimba for him by the San Francisco Chamber Aaron Jay Kernis piano and vibraphone rolls with large orchestra Orchestra, the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra chords, and only much later returns to a mostly of Columbus, Ohio, and the Bellingham Festival Total timings: [77.53] peaceful character. in Washington State. ROYAL NORTHERN SINFONIA Much of the 2nd movement, Kora Song, is PAUL NEUBAUER VIOLA JOSHUA ROMAN CELLO inspired by music of the African kora, a plucked Aaron Jay Kernis piano gourd almost similar in sound to the harp and REBECCA MILLER CONDUCTOR pizzicato cello combination that opens the www.signumrecords.com - 3 - Viola Concerto (2013-2014) harshness. Yet throughout there are linked was later surprised to hear it sung in many made wildly improvisatory, and at times, very I. Braid musical ideas in each movement which give ways – as a romantic wedding song, wildly harsh and bitter. Only very late in the movement II. Romance the entire work continuity. gyrating dance tune, and even in an ironic, is the simple, original tune heard, above III. A Song My Mother Taught Me comedic rendition. After hearing Paul’s pulsating strummed chords. The form could The opening movement, Braid, is a series of Schumann CD, a melody from his Op. 34 set be construed to be variations in search of their This new concerto for Viola is inspired essentially elaborations and embellishments of a sequence of short piano pieces lodged in my ear and melody. A short, intense solo viola cadenza is by its extraordinary soloist whose playing of harmonies and melodies. Throughout its would not leave it, so its melody and followed by a dense and frenzied climax with I’ve known over many years. Paul Neubauer compact length it shifts from clear three- distinctive rhythm became the frame of the the two clarinets leading the way. A decisively and I first worked together in 1993 when note chords at the opening and closing to a movement, with Tumbalalaika as its essential bleak battle between bass drum and viola American Public Radio commissioned my Still thickening gauze of colors that weave around the musical material. Both melodies have a strong pounds the opening Schumann-esque rhythms Movement with Hymn for piano quartet which viola line and lead, at its peak, to a chaotic frenzy. rhythmic kinship with the other. Included as into silence. To close, the ghostly irony of a he premiered on air and toured with 3 other bonus tracks (9,10) are recordings of the essential brief quote from Mahler, a final blanket of remarkable musicians. In some ways this The second movement, Romance is a lyrical, musical material used in the 3rd movement – my opposing chords that reference the Schumann new concerto follows up on the tone of that romantic intermezzo, which grows out of arrangement of Tumbalalaika for viola and piano, one last time, and a pensive coda completes piece. More recently I was extremely moved by breathing, fluid gestures and harmonies that and the Schumann Fughetta, from Piano Pieces the work. Paul’s recording (with pianist Anne-Marie link to the Brahms/early Schoenberg tradition. The Op. 32 No. 4. McDermott) of viola music of Robert Schumann, title came from discovering a number of lovely While I decided not to preface each of the and this lead me to re-explore the music of piano pieces by Clara Schumann titled Romanze, The third movement begins with plaintive, virtuosic variations in the score with words from Robert and Clara Schumann in depth once clearly written in mind of her husband. lines in the clarinet and bass clarinet, then Tumbalaliaka, here are the lyrics that inspired again. I have always been drawn to the soulful the Schumann melody is heard in its simplest the movement. character of the viola, and have been excited The final movement,A Song My Mother Taught form. It returns repeatedly at important to write this work from the moment Paul Me, is the longest and darkest in the concerto, moments throughout, and is increasingly Viola Concerto was written in 2013- 2014 and requested it. lasting about 20 minutes. Knowing of the Paul deconstructed and harmonically decayed. The generously commissioned for Paul Neubauer Neubauer’s interest in folk music, as soon use of the Yiddish tune takes the opposite by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with the This concerto shows many contradictory elements as I decided to write the work I chose to base approach – while it is formed like a theme leadership support of Linda and Stuart Nelson; in tone, and the use of a very wide terrain of this movement on the well-known Yiddish and series of variations, the ten linked Idyllwild Arts Academy; Chautauqua Institution; musical language and moods. The profiles of song, Tumbalalaika, which I had first learned variations proceed backwards toward the and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. It is the melodies that suffuse it are highly varied, in my childhood. I had always felt it had very tune, starting at their most fragmented and dedicated to Paul Neubauer, in great admiration as are the wide contrasts of lyricism and penetrating words and a sad melody, and least melodic. The tune has been pulverized, and appreciation. - 4 - - 5 - Transliteration of Yiddish Lyrics Translation: Vos iz tifer fun a kval? What is deeper than a well? Vos iz biter, biterer vi gal? What is bitter, more bitter than gall? Shteyt a bokher, un er trakht A young lad stands, and he thinks Trakht un trakht a gantse nakht Thinks and thinks the whole night through Chorus Chorus Vemen tzu nemen un nisht farshemen Whom to take and not to shame Vemen tzu nemen un nisht farshemen Whom to take and not to shame A koymen iz hekher fun a hoyz. A chimney is higher than a house A kats iz flinker fun a moyz. A cat is swifter than a mouse Chorus Chorus Di toyre iz tifer fun a kval. The Torah is deeper than a well Tumbala, Tumbala, Tumbalalaika Tumbala, Tumbala, Tumbalalaika Der toyt iz biter, biterer vi gal. Death is bitter, more bitter than gall Tumbala, Tumbala, Tumbalalaika Tumbala, Tumbala, Tumbalalaika Tumbalalaika, shpil balalaika Tumbalalaika, strum balalaika Chorus Chorus Tumbalalaika,freylekh zol zayn Tumbalalaika, may we be happy Meydl, meydl, kh’vil bay dir fregn, Girl, girl, I want to ask of you Vos ken vaksn, vaksn on regn? What can grow, grow without rain? Concerto with Echoes (2009) mine and reminiscences of other composers I Vos ken brenen un nit oyfhern? What can burn and never end? I. Lontano; Tocatta: Molto allegro love who also paid homage to Bach in their music. Vos ken benken, veynen on trern? What can yearn, cry without tears? II. Slowly III. Aria - dolente, grazioso Each of the Brandenburgs is exceptional in its Chorus Chorus use of instruments, and this concerto mirrors The essential element in the Sixth Brandenburg the Sixth by using only violas, celli and basses, Narisher bokher, vos darfstu fregn? Foolish lad, why do you have to ask? Concerto that inspired this work comes from while gradually adding reeds and horns to loop A shteyn ken vaksn, vaksn on regn. A stone can grow, grow without rain its very first measure — the opening passage back to the sound world of the First Brandenburg Libe ken brenen un nit oyfhern. Love can burn and never end with two spiraling solo violas, like identical Concerto (and extending it with trumpet A harts ken benken, veynen on trern. A heart can yearn, cry without tears twins following each other breathlessly through and percussion). a hall of mirrors — the echoing of the title. Chorus Chorus Also in mind were other works of Bach’s that I The first movement begins with a soft introduction think of constantly, such as the Ricercar, which lays out important building blocks of the Vos iz hekher fun a hoyz? What is higher than a house? keyboard Toccatas, C Minor Organ Passacaglia, concerto’s harmony, followed by a fiery, toccata-like Vos iz flinker fun a moyz? What is swifter than a mouse? etc.
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