Performed by: Adi Menczel - Flute, Boris Bayev - Oboe, Jeff Howard - Clarinet, Aviram Freiberg - Horn, Noga Yeshurun - Bassoon (2007)
Performed by: The New Israel Wind Quintet (1995)
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Program Note
This work was written in 1995 for the New Israeli Quintet for Woodwind Instruments and was premiered by them at the Henry Crown Auditorium in Jerusalem that year. In the course of working with the quintet and from my knowledge of its members, I decided to insert a solo for each player, in which he is the dominant figure. In addition there is a middle part in which there is no soloist and all play together. The musical material of the quintet is based on a single chord of 5 notes, which appear in twelve variations. In each measure there is one appearance of the chord, so that the twelve measures contain all the possible appearances. Like a blues piece composed of twelve measures of specific harmonic content that repeat themselves over and over, also in this piece, the twelve measures repeat themselves indefinitely until the end.
Premiered by the New Israeli Woodwind Quintet on Mar. 20, 1995 at The Henry Crown Auditorium in Jerusalem, Israel.
Performances
6 May 1995 Ensemble Migvan Tsavta Kiryat Tivon
20 Mar 1995 New Israeli Woodwind Quintet Henry Crown Auditorium Jerusalem
