String Quartet 2. Presto

Benoit Mernier
Concerto pour piano et orchestre : 1er Mouvement - 2008
For piano and orchestra [3.2.3.2- 4.2.2.1- Timp. – 1 Perc - Cel - Hrp – 10.10.8.6.4]

Cédric Tiberghien, piano / Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, dir. Pascal Rophé

"Concerto pour piano et orchestre : 1er mouvement" - Benoit Mernier (2008)



Benoit Mernier
Concerto pour piano et orchestre : 2ème Mouvement (excerpt) - 2008
For piano and orchestra [3.2.3.2- 4.2.2.1- Timp. – 1 Perc - Cel - Hrp – 10.10.8.6.4]

Cédric Tiberghien, piano / Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, dir. Pascal Rophé

"Concerto pour piano et orchestre : 2ème mouvement" (excerpt) - Benoit Mernier (2008)



Benoit Mernier
Concerto pour piano et orchestre : 3ème Mouvement - 2008
For piano and orchestra [3.2.3.2- 4.2.2.1- Timp. – 1 Perc - Cel - Hrp – 10.10.8.6.4]

Cédric Tiberghien, piano / Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, dir. Pascal Rophé

"Concerto pour piano et orchestre : 3ème mouvement" - Benoit Mernier (2008)

Ragtime & Stride Piano

G minor stride

G Minor Stride

This piece was written for, and dedicated to my wife, Jennifer.  I tried to create a story - a journey through music that followed and complimented this charming and evocative poem.

The players:

Jennifer Lanman: Voice 
Anthony Joseph Lanman: 8-String Electric Guitar
Paul Bro: Alto Saxophone
Nathan Rainey: Horn
Ted Piechocinski: Accordion
Beverley Simms: Piano
Sharilyn Spicknall: Violin
Kurt Fowler: Cello
Todd Gallagher: Contrabass
Jimmy Finnie: Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Steel Drums, Suspended Cymbal, Cajon
Roby George: Conductor

Recording Engineers: Matthew Pauley and Don Arney
Mixed and mastered by Don Arney

Instructions (on How to Survive a Fairy Tale)

Demos performed with the sample libraries. Some demos contain additional reverb.

Demo by
SF = Steffen Fahl
TB = Tobias Birkenbeil

German Theorbo-Harpsichord Demo - Georg Boehm - Praeludium - Fuge - Postludium G (SF)

1- Toccata Gm - Kapsberger
2- Improvisation - Rafael de la Vega

Kapsberger et Theorba Kororbe for theorbo solo

Sonata 46 for violin and classical guitar

Sandra Haniszewska - Violin
Tomasz Kandulski - Classical Guitar

I was attending music school as an undergraduate in 1998 at the University of Texas at Austin. At the time, Matthew Gould (of Duo 46) was attending as a Doctoral student in guitar and living in Austin with his partner, violinist Beth Schneider. They had started Duo 46 maybe a few years before this. I was hanging out with them a lot in those days - just going over to their apartment or whatever. One day, Matt said to me, "Hey man, why don't you write us a piece?", and I said, "Umm.. ok."

At this point, I don't think they expected much. They hadn't had that many pieces written for them yet, and I was just starting as a composer, only in my second year of school. I decided I wanted to write something that would really show off what they could do technically and musically, and that would leave audiences breathless.

Not knowing how to begin, I lifted a line from a piece that I had just written - a solo flute piece titled "The Five Rings of Miyamoto Musashi". That became the opening line of the piece. Then, inspired by the one movement sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, I wrote the piece based on that line. The piece is full of things that I was just discovering and becoming influenced by at the time: baroque sonatas, renaissance lute music (hence the "lute" tuning of the guitar), the tangos of Piazzolla as well as the ever-present rock and heavy metal that has always been part of my music. Since Duo 46 premiered the piece in 1999, Sonata 46 has become one of my most frequently and widely performed pieces.

Notes

Sonata 46 (Haniszewska-Kandulski Duo)

24th September 2018
São Paulo Cathedral
Theorbo - Alexandre Ribeiro

Reliquiae I, for Theorbo solo (2018)

Clay Garrett, tuba
Cameron Hoffman, piano

Thierry Thibault - Molto Tango

Maine-raised, Boston and Baltimore (Peabody) educated, New York City honed, Chicago softened, and now back in New England.  Besides composing, I play piano and tuba (and tuba variants), and sing bass and countertenor.

String Quartet 2. Presto

Jack Parton, composer