Name: Inseparable for String Quartet (2015) by LBMA
Duration: 10 min 27 s
Description: Chroma Quartet

Commissioned by a consortium of marimbists including Makoto Nakura, Andy Eldridge, Brian Zator, Francisco Perez, and Justin Alexander, this piece was premiered by Makoto Nakura during the 2013 European American Musical Alliance Summer Music Program in Salle Franck at La Schola Cantorum in Paris, France.  This recording was made by Nakura in Nada Hall in Kobe, Japan.

Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Minor

Archival only - premiere recording by Manitoba Chamber Orchestra with James Sommerville as conductor and horn soloist to be released on all major streaming platforms at a later time

James Sommerville, Horn and Conductor 

I. Insouciant
II. Luminous
III. Spirited

PROGRAM NOTE

My Horn Concerto highlights the lyrical and virtuosic properties of the solo horn.  The piece’s instrumentation— two clarinets, two bassoons, and strings— takes the rich, dark hues of Mozart’s orchestra in his Third Horn Concerto as a point of departure. Apart from the parallel with the Mozart in terms of instrumentation, my Horn Concerto inhabits a sound world that is very much its own, showcasing different kinds of horn playing in each of its three movements. 

The first movement, with its insouciant quality, evokes the instrument’s hunting-horn origins, embedding fanfare-like melodies in non-functional harmony. The second movement is lyrical; its long, embellished melodic lines evolve through gauzy string textures, featuring an interplay between the solo horn and the first clarinet, who start out trading phrases and end up duetting. The third and final movement is driven and angular.  A spirited subject/answer complex gives way to more atmospheric sonorities but ultimately returns to its chromatic and punchy start, featuring members of the orchestra soloistically along the way. This movement introduces low woodwind doublings (bass clarinet and contrabassoon) that I have added as an extension of Mozart’s orchestra. The cadenza features the special sonority of glissandi (slides through many partials) combined with a stopped sound in the solo part. 

My Horn Concerto was written for James Sommerville in 2020 as a co-commission by a consortium of five orchestras in the U.S. and Canada.  It is eighteen minutes in duration. 

- Kati Agócs, August 2021

Horn Concerto was co-commissioned by Symphony Nova Scotia, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, and Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra

Conductor's Score:
https://www.tfront.com/p-510177-horn-concerto-for-solo-horn-and-chamber-orchestra-2021.aspx

Sheet music for reduction (Solo Horn and Piano):
www.tfront.com/p-524558-horn-con…rn-and-piano.aspx

Horn Concerto (Solo Horn and Chamber Orchestra)

From Northern Lights
Year of Composition: 2011
Sheet music at http://www.katiagocs.com


A La Claire Fontaine (Solo Harp)

opium induced, dreams, nightmares, & visions

Visions (2016) - for solo trumpet

Premiered by Jeffrey Milarsky conducting the Juilliard Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall, April 3rd 2017.


In this moment, all is a flower.

Look at the wide sky on the sea. In that blue, we cannot see the far-off flame. See the blossoms drifting under the sunrise in rain. In that red, waves take them to the unknown.

In this moment, all is a flower.

DUST 塵埃 (orchestra)

170508 Chroma Quartet

Inseparable for String Quartet (2015)

"Time and I have quarreled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch but destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me." - Susanna Clarke

Against Time was premiered by NEC musicians as part of the Tuesday Night New Music concert series.

Against Time (2017) - for chamber ensemble

Verses from Beyond the Passes 从军行 (violin and piano)

Performed by China National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra, conducted by Lü Jia on October 6, 2019 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing.

Heaven and Earth revive,
and falls the rain upon all.
Breathing the spirit of this world,
grateful.
​
天地复苏
雨落咸安
呼吸万物的气息
感恩

Inseparable for String Quartet (2015)

LBMA

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