Commissions
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Patrick van Deurzen
Monologue
for solo cello
2010-2011
Premiere: May 13, 2011, Den Haag, NL
Supported in part by Fonds voor de podiumkunsten+
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Zachary Wadsworth
Evening Canticle
for solo cello
2010
Premiere: December 30, 2010, Geneva, NY
Audio: (Collins 2010)
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Caroline Adelaide Shaw
in manus tuas
for solo cello
2009
Preview: December 16, 2009, New Haven, CT
Premiere: December 30, 2010, Geneva, NY
Dutch Premiere: February 23, 2011, Den Haag, NL
Note from the composer: As the title suggests, in manus tuas is based on an earlier motet, in this case that of Thomas Tallis (1505-1585, England). While there are only a few slices of the piece that reflect exact harmonic changes in Tallis’ setting, the motion (or lack of) is intended to capture the sensation of a single moment of hearing the motet in the particular and remarkable space of Christ Church in New Haven, Connecticut. -carolineshaw.com
Audio: (Collins 2010)
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Timo Andres
Fast Flows the River
for cello and Hammond B3 Organ
2009
Premiere: April 30, 2009, New Haven, CT
Notes from the composer: Hannah Collins, one of my frequentest and most loyal of collaborators, asked me to wright her a piano-less cello piece about a month ago. So I went and wrote her a piece with Hammond organ. Ha! Sure showed her.
Fast Flows the River is a textless setting of the anonymous folk song Call John the Boatman for ‘cello and electric organ. The lyrics of the song describe a sailor who “sleeps” more deeply the worse a storm buffets his boat. -andres.com
Audio: (Andres/Collins 2009)
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Timo Andres
I Found it by the Sea
for piano quartet
2007
Premiere: April 20, 2008, New Haven, CT
Note from the composer: I found it impossible to write a piano quartet without paying homage in some way to Brahms’s Op. 25 (which I first heard 11 years ago and remains my benchmark for great chamber music). I noticed a similarity between the theme of I Found it in the Woods [flute, viola harp trio written in 2006] to the piano theme about 10 bars into the Brahms quartet and mashed the two of them together, creating the theme for, in a sense, my Variations on a Theme by Brahms. -andres.com
Audio: (DiEugenio/Lanzilotti/Collins/Andres 2008)
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