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David Lang - This Was Written By Hand

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1.) The Boatman (Prelude) - Tigran Hamasyan
 2.) The Court Jester - Tigran Hamasyan
 3.) Sibylla - Tigran Hamasyan
 4.) Lilac - You get the idea right?
 5.) Love Song 
6.) Someday My Prince Will Come
7.) The Boatman (Interlude)
8.) Levitation 21
 9.) Rythm - Ari Hoenig & Tigran (that’s honestly how they spell it.)
10.) Drip - Tigran Hamasyan
 11.) Lament - the rest as before. 
12.) The Roads That Bring Me Closer to You 
13.) The Boatman (Postlude)

Whiplash presents: PlayerSeries // tigran hamasyan. - September 2022

Me playing the opening movement of Beethoven's Pastoral sonata. LVB walking through nature, wrestling his demons, being all immortal... Hope you like.

Beethoven Piano Sonata In D Major, Op. 28 - 'Pastoral'  I. Allegro

Here's a video of this performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGAf0yWUAnU 

http://www.chriswatford.com
http://www.transientcanvas.com

Density Is A Kind Of Love (premiere recording, live 6.1.15)

Karl Larson, piano with The String Orchestra of Brooklyn conducted by Eli Spindel

Recorded live Thursday, June 25, 2015
Roulette; Brooklyn, New York

www.thesob.org
www.karllarsonpiano.com



MEDITATION ON DUST

Juno (2015)

For Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Percussion, Piano

For much of the world, 2015 was one of the warmest winters on record. In Boston, where I live, it was one of the coldest. By mid-January it seemed like we might get a pass from mother nature, but in the last week of January, winter storm Juno paid us a visit, launching a series of massive blizzards that brought a record breaking amount of snowfall. At the time I was holed up in a small New Hampshire cabin, fireplace and food close at hand, working on this piece, actually. For me the storms brought an eerie, magical calm: leafless trees crackling in the wind; pristine, untouched snow as far the eye could see; deep cold and an endless white horizon. At the same time my wife, eight months pregnant with our son, was alone in Boston, commuting to work on treacherous, ice-covered streets hemmed in by ten foot tall snow banks and a sea of frustrated commuters. The contrast was extreme. My piece Juno, reflects on that time: the anticipation before the first big storm; the beautiful stillness of fresh snow; the loud, dirty, struggles of an urban winter; and the feeling of heaviness as the season drags on seemingly without end. Juno was commissioned by the Mandel Foundation for the Utah Arts Festival and premiered in June 2015 by the Verge Ensemble.

Recorded 9.30.15 live at Bates Recital Hall
UT Austin New Music Ensemble
Dan Welcher, Conductor

www.roberthonstein.com

Juno

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 In B Minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique', IV. Finale- Adagio Lamentoso

Karl Larson, piano.
Recorded live Sunday, March 19, 2017
Scholes Street Studio; Brooklyn, New York

DARK DAYS played 2x. The recording here is of the premiere. Karl framed his program by playing the piece twice; once at the start and then again at the end of program. This recording includes both performances. 

www.karllarsonpiano.com
www.scholesstreetstudio.com

DARK DAYS

Written for and premiered by Bearthoven during their feature at NYU Steinhardt, April 3rd, 2017, NYC.

Karl Larson, piano
Pat Swoboda, electric bass
Matt Evans, percussion

http://www.bearthoven.com/

Live recording by Aaron Garcia
http://www.aarongarciacomposer.com/

Educating the Established (Bearthoven)

"Silk" was written for and premiered by Bearthoven at NYU Steinhardt, April 3rd, 2017.

Karl Larson, piano
Pat Swoboda, upright bass
Matt Evans, vibraphone and drum set

http://www.bearthoven.com/

Live recording by Aaron Garcia.
http://www.aarongarciacomposer.com/

Silk

A Kind of Lung was written for a diverse ensemble expressing an experience we all share - breathing together. Commissioned by the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, where I was a fellow in 2017. 

Naomi Johnson- flute
Erlan Kasabolotov- Sabyzgy
Hunter Shelby Long- Paetzold Contrabass Recorder
Khushbakht Niyozov- Rubab
Sayat Yeshmatov- Dombra
Shannon Reilly Steigerwald- Violin
Nick Photinos- Cello
Nadezda Filippova- Piano
Caitlin Cawley- Percussion / Vibraphone
Kevin Zetina- Percussion / Drum Set

This live performance was from the premiere concert held at Mass MoCa.

A Kind Of Lung

Page for Piano
Karl Larson, piano
World premiere recorded live 11.20.17
Spectrum
Brooklyn, New York

https://soundcloud.com/karl-larson-3
https://karllarsonpiano.com

Pages for Piano

In Search of Lost Color
Karl Larson, piano
recorded live 11.20.17
Spectrum
Brooklyn, New York

@karl-larson-3
karllarsonpiano.com

In Search Of Lost Color (live)

Schoenberg ensemble
Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor

FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM was written in 2004 on a commission from the Dutch Schoenberg Ensemble. Its world premiere of the composition took place the same year at the Concertgebouw under the direction of Reinbert de Leuw.

I tried to construct my piece on the basis of juxtaposition of two contrasting types of music: the music of breath and the music of mechanism, as well as, correspondingly, two types of time – the continuous and the mechanically discreet. It was especially intriguing for me to examine the processes of the emergence and formation of each type of music, and also to trace the stages of the transition of one into the other. I was also greatly interested in the idea of the gradual modulation of the timbral beats of sound into rhythmic structures, as well as the transformation of instrumental sound-color into rhythm.

The pendulum-like development of the musical material of the piece (involving repetitions with gradual changes of the "trajectory" of the movement), as well as a few other constructive principles of the composition brought to my mind the famous pendulum built by Jacques Foucault in 1851 for a visual demonstration of the fact of the Earth's rotation. The title of the work also contains the allusion to the famous mystification novel by Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum."

David Lang - This Was Written By Hand

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