Love the grotesque here!! Great creative use of the waltz patterns combined with contemporary phrases

a danse macabre of the sorts, but it still makes me want to dance , love it

Nice short waltz wrapped in awesome modern composition.

Woww!!  This is awesome,  Great work Robert. Congratulations!!

I love it! So collorful and funny, absolutely my taste!

Structurally brilliant, musically fascinating, with a lot of cinematic potential in the many expressive moments. The violin bow bounces were my favorite. Will listen to this again and again. Is it published work?

Love it as full of orchestra and full of wonderful music classical work well done my friend

beautiful composition! really well done 👏

Wow…well that’s a waltz ! Electrifying! Well done Robert

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Dobrovody

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Put It Down (Digital Dependency)

The words to this track was written about 25 years ago by my spouse at the beginning of our relationship. It was a period of light and darkness as her family at the time didn't approve of our relationship. As a result the track is ambivalent as it describes the turmoil in our life at that time. It eventually turn out that our love was strong and we have been married for 22 years. Unfortunately my wife lost contact with her mother and sister but instead she found her father and got four more siblings that she had not known existed.

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"As Far As I Can See" appears on  Jeremias Langsämmer's forthcoming album "The Fall".

Movement 1: 0:00
Movement 2: 3.56
Movement 3: 6:20

As Far As I Can See (in 3 movements) by Jeremias Langsämmer

ALFONSO LLORENTE: ACOUSTIC GUITAR & CELLO
MRS A: VOCALS

Nada ha de decirse, solo vivir lo que tenemos....

RENACER (Alfonso Llorente)

Suite for String Orchestra
Duration: 15'
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PROGRAM NOTE
Unlike some of my previous works, Suite for String Orchestra is not inspired by an over-arching programmatic theme. Although there are some technical and motivic relationships between some of the movements—particularly the first and fifth—the movements are generally unrelated and are meant to be noticeably distinct. It is in five short movements and is intentionally written in an “old-fashioned,” somewhat archaic style. I initially played around with the idea of titling this work Old-fashioned Suite or Old Time Suite, but there seems to be a sufficient sprinkling of “new fangled ideas” in this work to make these alternative titles seem inadequate.

The first movement, Allegro vivace, is written in a “mid-20th century American” style. My model for a few of the sections in this movement is the evocative, German phrase Sturm und Drang, which literally translated means “storm and stress.”

In the second movement, Trapped waltz, I imagine an ethereal, yet cognizant waltz floating above the stratosphere, looking for a place to rest, but hobbled and shackled by a pounding rock and roll drumset. I see this as a metaphor for the various dances throughout history that have come and gone but are continually vying for attention in contemporary culture. The movement fades out at the end, as if the waltz is eternally looking for a place to settle down. Admittedly, I was somewhat inspired by the collage works of Charles Ives.

The third movement, Nocturne, begins slowly and sadly, and I imagine the pulse in the beginning as similar to the gentle breathing of someone who is asleep. The middle of the movement is much more intense and violent, and the end is as soft and calm as the beginning. The first chair violin and the first chair violoncello have brief solos in this movement.

Although material from the middle of the fourth movement, Balinese scherzo, is derived from a Balinese scale, the beginning is somewhat chromatic and the ending is essentially based on the E-major scale. This movement is distinctive in that the orchestra is asked to play pizzicato almost the entire time.

The fifth movement, Finale: allegro moderato, is the movement that is most reminiscent of the first movement. The ending combines material from the beginning of both the first and fifth movements.

Suite For String Orchestra - II. Trapped waltz

Described by the press as “a modern day master” (AXS.com) and the “highlight of the program” (The New York Times), Robert Paterson has won awards for his music in virtually every classical genre. The Classical Recording Foundation at Carnegie’s Weill Hall named Paterson Composer of The Year in 2011, and his music has been on the Grammy ballot for the past six seasons. His works have appeared on National Public Radio’s Best of the Year lists for classical music and regularly appear on radio playlists across the United States.

Paterson’s music has been performed by over one hundred world-class ensembles, including Musica Sacra in NYC, Nashville Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Delaware Symphony, Austin Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, American Modern Ensemble, Atlantic Brass Quintet, Imani Winds, and Ensemble Aleph in Paris.

Recent commissions include Ghost Theater, for the Albany Symphony, Shine for the American Brass Quintet, Moon Trio for the Claremont Trio and new works for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Wind Ensemble, and numerous choirs, including Ember and The Esoterics. Paterson’s debut choral album, Eternal Reflections, was released by Musica Sacra and Maestro Kent Tritle in 2015.

Paterson has received awards for his works in virtually every classical genre, including the A.I. duPont Composer’s Award from the Delaware Symphony, a three-year Music Alive grant from the League of American Orchestras and New Music USA, the American Composers Forum Jerome Composers Commissioning Program, the Utah Arts Festival Commission Competition, and fellowships to Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Aspen Music Festival, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Copland House.

In 2005, Paterson founded the American Modern Ensemble (AME), which spotlights contemporary music via lively thematic programming. He serves as artistic director as well as house composer, frequently contributing new pieces to the ensemble. In 2018, Paterson co-founded the Mostly Modern Festival (MMF), an annual, three-week summer music festival that highlights contemporary music, which takes place at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. He also founded American Modern Recordings (AMR), an affiliated record label that is distributed by NAXOS. Paterson’s recordings are also featured on the Capstone, Centaur, Summit and Riax labels.

Born in 1970, Paterson was raised in Buffalo, New York, the son of a sculptor and a painter. Although his first love was percussion, he soon discovered a passion for composition, writing his first piece at age thirteen. While an undergraduate student, Paterson pioneered the development of a six-mallet marimba technique, and released the first-ever album of six-mallet music, Six Mallet Marimba in 2012 (AMR) to a sold-out crowd at the Rubin Museum in Chelsea, NYC. 

Paterson holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, and Cornell University, and gives master classes at numerous colleges and universities, most recently at the Curtis Institute of Music, Aspen Music School & Festival, New York University, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. He resides in New York City and Saratoga Springs, NY with his wife, Victoria, his son, Dylan, and their cat, Cookie. For more information, visit robertpaterson.com.

[May, 2020]

Suite For String Orchestra - II. Trapped waltz

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