trio: alto flute (doubles flute), violin, bass clarinet (or alt. version with cello)
18 minutes
commissioned by the Taos Chamber Music Group
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Premiered in Paine Hall at Harvard University on February 19, 2016 by the Callithumpian Consort
The flutist mainly plays alto, switching to C flute for the last section only. There is a version with bass clarinet and a version with cello. |
 Bach's manuscript to the Eb minor prelude, book I
What is the relationship between the prelude and the fugue? Usually, when we hear a prelude and fugue from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, there is a short pause between the two. In these three seconds, worlds can shift in almost any sense imaginable, except the tonic note. I have taken those three seconds and stretched them into a ten-minute interlude. This piece is my attempt at an emotional screen print of Bach's extraordinary piece.
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