SKU: A0.810761

David Fetter's brilliant new work Situation Update - Suite for Tenor Trombone and Piano is written in three contrasting movements totalling almost 11 minutes in length:

1. Swift

2. Longing

3. Exit Music

Swift is marked Intense and is very rhythmic and angular. Longing is a beautiful lyrical movement marked Cantabile and Exit Music is marked Lively mixing chromatic, lyrical and  syncopated segments, ending in a giant climax.

Both the solo and accompaniment parts are written for advanced performers.

The work's premier was performed in 2015 by retired Principal Trombonist of the Boston Symphony, Ronald Barron and accompanied at the Piano by composer Eric Ewazen.

Here is what Mr. Ewazen has said about Situation Update:

I had the pleasure of hearing Ron Barron play David Fetter's exciting and virtuosic new work for Trombone and Piano, Situation Update. David's music allows the Trombonist to sing and soar in 3 contrasting movements filled with vivid colors, beautiful and expressive harmonies, and a wonderful flowing rhythmic energy. The outer movements crackle with

energy, showcasing the amazing technique of soloist Ron Barron, as the melodic line shifts and changes with playful abandon, while the middle movement is heartfelt and lyrical, with beautiful melodic lines, supported by resonant, gorgeous harmonies. The work is a real tour de force and

rightly deserves to take its place as a significant addition to the Trombone repertoire.

SKU: A0.914004

Floco de Neve I (Snowflake I) is a piece for piano and clarinet composed by the Brazilian composer Daniel Luna de Menezes in 2009. This piece uses some of the Modes of Limited Transposition (also known as Messiaen's Modes) to make a exotic harmonic and melodic character. The name comes from the Koch Snowflake, a fractal based on triangles. The harmonic progressions was organized in a system of ways that makes a geometrical structure similar to the Koch Snowflake.

This is a good piece to study atonal music and unconventional scales keeping a friendly and intuitive sound, with no excess of aggressive dissonances and harmony composed with tonal-like triads and tetrads (but unconventional progressions).

This piece was praised by Professor Eric Ewazen (American composer and teacher) in a masterclass in 2010.


Notes:
- Contains both Piano Accompaniment Part (piano part with clarinet small staff) and Clarinet in Bb Part
- The Clarinet part is already transposed (this piece have no key signature)
- Piano part is in Folio size. Clarinet part is in A4 size.