Sri Sukta Mantra 9 (11x)

Ensemble Dal Niente, Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, soprano, Michael Lewanski, conductor, Dan Nichols, recording engineer
Recorded on portrait album Without Words by Ensemble Dal Niente. Carrier Records 022, 2013.

Without Words for soprano, 11 instruments & electronics

Ukrainian Fantasy (1977)
for Violin and Tape

Ukrainian Fantasy was written for Ukrainian-American violinist Adrian Bryttan, who requested a violin and piano piece employing Ukrainian folk melodies in a work similar to Ravel’s Tzigaine . However, as I listened to this folk music, particularly in recordings of unadulterated folk performances, I became too intrigued by the actual sound quality of the music to be happy with a translation to piano. I convinced Adrian that what he really wanted was a piece which used the actual sound of these recordings as a context for a violin fantasy. So the piece emerged as a work for violin with a collage “tape” of material assembled from a wealth of folk recordings. The main compositional enterprise was to design a form and a sound fabric which would allow the violinist and the audience to revel in the high spirits, humor, nostalgia, frenzy, and lyric emotional power this music evokes.

Score PDF: http://www.music.indiana.edu/departments/academic/composition/scores/Freund-Ukrainian%20Fantasy.pdf#View the score
Other scores: http://donfreund.com/

Ukrainian Fantasy (1977)

Nostalgia Var 9 - 11 + Full

Sanctuary (2016)

Coïgitum, by Richard Barrett

Nina Dante, voice
Dalia Chin, flute
Jonathan Thompson, oboe d'amore
Daniel Walden, piano
Ryan Packard, percussion
David Cubek, conductor

Coïgitum, by Richard Barrett

Music for electric guitar and also saxophone. Played by Yaron Deutsch and Gan Lev (Ensemble Nikel), 2006

Riba_Sivan Cohen Elias

arr. of traditional song from the south of Serbia, "More izgrejala nane sjajna mesečina," in tremolo (scordatura C#m/harmonic progression by Katarina Vukadinović/middle part is improvised).

More, izgrejala, nane
More, izgrejala, nane,
more, izgrejala
sjajna mesečina, mila nane,
sjajna mesečina.
 
More, toj ne beše, nane,
more, toj ne beše
sjajna mesečina, mila nane,
sjajna mesečina.
 
More, već toj beše, nane,
more, već toj beše
Smiljana devojka, mila nane,
Smiljana devojka.
 
More, odvede gu, nane,
more, odvede gu
Stojan Krivorečan, mila nane,
Stojan Krivorečan.
 
More, odvede gu, nane,
more, odvede gu
tamo da gu ljubi, mila nane,
tamo da gu ljubi.
https://lyricstranslate.com

Recorded on John H. Dick (double forte model, 2013), and D'Addario hard tension strings

TremoloStudy (More izgrejala nane sjajna mesečina/ arr. Radovanlija)

the first from 27 Haikus for guitar ~ recorded in my parents living room on Yamanha C70 and 3 years old strings, in Belgade, Serbia
completely improvised ~

"Clouds come between friends
Only briefly -
a wild goose's migration."

(Bashō)

haiku 1 : How Empty the Sea

Maja Radovanlija

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