«Distant Words» Op.43b
— The extreme range of the clarinet is given a virtuoso but at the same time restrained, almost ascetic, solo part.
Category: Symphony Orchestra
Instrumentation: Clarinet in Bb, Strings Orchestra
Composer: Flint Juventino Beppe
Year composed: 2004
First performance: February 17, 2008
Duration: 15:00
Movements:
- Typhoon at Heart (10:30)
- Healed by Red Wind (05:00)
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Recorded in 2012 by Mark van de Wiel (clarinet) and Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
— I very much enjoyed preparing and performing Distant Words. Flint Juventino understands the clarinet's voice very well, and gives it a combination of lyricism and virtuosity, which is most rewarding to play. I was thrilled to have the chance to record it with Maestro Ashkenazy and my Philharmonia colleagues.
Mark van de Wiel
— «Distant Words» (a title, one suspects, where the composer has indulged in a little wordplay on "words" and "worlds"!) is, for a work scored for a homogeneous group of instruments in the chamber-music tradition, an astonishingly multi-faceted composition. The extreme range of the clarinet is given a virtuosic but at the same time restrained, almost ascetic, solo part. Light and vitality permeate the whole piece -- the composer hints at a sense of euphoria over the presence of the girl, but at the same time the listener feels a hesitant tenderness, a distance of Schubertian proportions.
Wolfgang Plagge, professor
Sheet music for this work
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Score
Parts
Movement: “Typhoon at Heart”
- Clarinet in Bb
- 1. violin
- 2. violin
- Viola
- Cello
- Double bass
Movement: “Healed by Red Wind”
- Clarinet in Bb
- 1. violin
- 2. violin
- Viola
- Cello
- Double bass
