A draft of recitative e aria was written in 2013 at the YellowBarn Young Artists Program. That version of the piece was premiered by Daniel Kim, violin I; Yaegy Park, violin II' Marta Hortobagyi Lambert, viola; and Daniel Hass, cello on June 27th, 2013. The recording of that performance is above. Some substantive changes have been made since, in the version that the score represents below.
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This piece is about talking and singing, but with no voices. The pieces moves back and forth through clearly marked spoken and sung sections. What type of song, each time, is to be a surprise. And the difference between recit and aria aren't always completely clear.