Album of the Young
Program note
Album for the Young (2015) was commissioned by Continuum (Toronto) for their 2015/2016 concert season. Scored for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion (vibraphone, tubular bells) and piano, the work divides into fourteen sections based on pieces from (and sketches for) Schumann’s Album für die Jugend (1848), as follows:
- opus 68 - 2nd part, № 23 Northern Song
- opus 68 - 2nd part, № 20 Wintertime I
- opus 68 - 2nd part, № 21 Wintertime II
- opus 68 - 2nd part, № 2 Rustic Song
- opus 68 - 1st part, № 11 Sicilienne
- opus 68 - 2nd part, № 2 Roundelay
- opus 68 - 2nd part, № 17 Mignon
- opus 68 - 1st part, № 3 Humming Song
- opus 68 - 2nd part, № 9 A Little Canon
- opus 68 - 1st part, № 10 The Merry Peasant returning from Work
- opus 15, № 3 Blind Man’s Bluff
- opus 68 - 2nd part, № 11 The Stranger
- without opus, 43 Piano Piece
- without opus, Rebus
The fourteen sections, played attacca, yield an overall duration of approximately fourteen minutes.
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2015