Duo 404
Sasha Yakub, violin
Forrest Eimold, piano

Iannis Xenakis: Dikhthas

Performed at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, MA, on one of the largest organs in the world.

Reger: op. 52/3, "Phantasie über den Choral 'Halleluja, Gott zu loben'"

Violinists: Rebecca Fischer, Susanna Monroe, and Jack Shigeta.

Violists: Jonah Sirota, Bram Fisher, Joseph Wang, and Alessandra Yang.

Flutist: Maxime Pitchon.

Pianists: Forrest Eimold and Miranda Scripp.

Performance from the 2018 Composers' Concert at Greenwood Music Camp.



Acknowledgments: this piece borrows material--and not exactly with 'good' intentions--primarily from the first movement of Johannes Brahms's Violin Concerto, op. 77; it occasionally borrows, too, from the fourth movement of the same composer's Symphony no. 4, op. 98, the first of Ferruccio Busoni's 5 Kurze Stücke, BV 296, and the second of Arnold Schoenberg's 4 Lieder, op. 2.

Forrest Eimold: Full Fathom Five V

Olivia De Prato and Victor Lowrie Tafoya, violins
Forrest Eimold, composition & electronics

This piece mashes material from 11 common practice-era violin concerti into a pulp, the remains of which are read simultaneously by two unaccompanied violinists. The electronics fuse their instruments into one mega-violin, sounding the frictions between the players' interpretations as much as it does their virtuosic commonalities. The result attempts to enact the difficulty of maintaining community during sickly times: each and every physical unison carries with it a disquieting health risk, just as each and every act of social distancing becomes a painful reminder of physical isolation.

The piece may be adapted for any pair of the same bowed string instrument.

Forrest Eimold: Full Fathom Two

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