The second piano concerto was written for Amy Briggs, and commissioned by BMOP with funds from the Jebediah Foundation. It was written in the spring of 2011 at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.
The piece is also on a YouTube compilation album here.
Videos of David Rakowski's music. And SoundCloud thingies, too. See Alphabetical List of Posts for genres.
"rampant imagination, ideas and riffs aggressively growing, mutating, overrunning a stretch of time like invasive species." — Boston Globe
"it outstayed its welcome like pundits’ ceaseless chatter" — NY Times
"If it was sultry, it was an academic sultry" — Boston Globe
"Mr. Rakowski is to be treasured for livening up the piano repertoire" — New York Concert Review
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Stolen Moments
Stolen Moments was originally written for string quartet, woodwind quintet and piano and commissioned by the Kaufman Center (Merkin Hall). It was written mostly at Civitella Ranieri in 2008. I arranged it for chamber orchestra (double woodwind quintet, strings and piano) in 2010 for the US Marine Chamber Orchestra, who premiered that version in May, 2011. Boston Modern Orchestra Project recorded it, thusly. The whole piece is also on a YouTube compilation album here.
The first movement assigns characteristic material to each group and then mixes and matches them at the end. That's Sarah Bob on piano.
The second movement sorta kinda channels spirituals and call-and-response.
The third movement is a deconstructed tango.
The fourth movement starts bebop, does a fugato, then a gigue, and then combines aspects of all the movements.
The first movement assigns characteristic material to each group and then mixes and matches them at the end. That's Sarah Bob on piano.
The second movement sorta kinda channels spirituals and call-and-response.
The third movement is a deconstructed tango.
The fourth movement starts bebop, does a fugato, then a gigue, and then combines aspects of all the movements.
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