This is a 2007 violin and piano version of a piece I wrote for violin and harp in 2005. You can listen to it here, and get the music here.
Lilliburlero for Violin and Piano
Transcription: Bach Brandenburg Concerto #2
This transcription of the Bach Brandenburg Concerto #2, BWV 1047, is for trumpet, organ, and string quartet. It is based on the Barenreiter edition, and the trumpet part is identical to the trumpet part of the original. The second movement is for string quartet alone. The original instrumentation for the outer movements is indicated in the organ part, but the intended sound is for organ stops and not for electronic approximations of flute and oboe. The score and parts are available here.
In the Gold Room
Here are two versions of my setting of Oscar Wilde's poem "In the Gold Room." The version for flute, mezzo-soprano, and piano, you can listen to here and download the music for here.
The version for cello, mezzo-soprano and piano, you can listen to here, and download here.
Note: The choice of vowels in the untexted vocalizations (indicated by Hmm) are left to the discretion of the singer.
August, 2009
Dances From "The Harlot's House"
Asleep in the Deep
Bird in a Gilded Cage
This is a new setting for soprano, flute, and piano of the lyric that Arthur J. Lamb wrote to music by Harry von Tilzer in 1900. For the full text, as well as a bit of amusing background, Chatty, of Glimpses through the blog is the best source I know.
July, 2009
You can download a PDF here, and listen to a computer-generated recording here.
Monday Waltz for flute, oboe, bassoon, and piano
July 7, 2009
This was originally a monody, which became a kind of parallel monody, and then grew into a four-instrument waltz. "Monody" looks so much like "Monday" that I simply decided to change the name, since this piece no longer has anything to do with monody. Or with Monday either, for that matter.
The score and parts, as well as an audio recording are available here.
Summer Music for Violin and Piano
June 30, 2009
Here's a computer-generated recording, and here's a PDF file of Summer Music.
Transcription: Fiocco Allegro for String Orchestra
Birthday Piece for Viola d'amore and Piano
Skye Boat Fantasie
April 26, 2009
You can download a PDF of this piece and listen to a recording of it here.
Two Choral Pieces from the Song of Songs
July, 2002
The score is available here, and you can listen to computer-generated versions of I am the Rose of Sharon and Arise my Darling here. I would love to be able to substitute real performances for these computer-generated ones. If you happen to perform these pieces, please send me a recording!
Five Postcards for Flute, Clarinet, Cello, and Piano
Here are links to computer-generated recordings:
Wish You Were Here
Variations on a Midmorning Stroll
Night Spot in a Modal Village
Cave Walk
Epilogue: Bahar Bagai
and the score and parts are available here.
Quartetto d'Amore
February 2, 2009
Just in time for Valentine's Day! This Quartetto D'Amore has a part that can be played by either the Oboe d'Amore or the Viola d'Amore, but the piece can also be played in other configurations. The Viola d'Amore part can be played by a regular viola, and, though it does lie rather low, it can be played on regular oboe. In addition, the flute part can be played by a violin, and the piece can even be played as a conventional string quartet (see the post below or go here for a more string quartet-friendly version of the second movement).
A downloadable PDF is available here, and you can listen to the piece in the Viola d'Amore version here for the first movement, and here for the second movement. You can listen to the Oboe d'Amore version here for the first movement, and here for the second movement.
Oseh Shalom for String Quartet
Song of Hope
This is my own private (now semi-private, because I'm sharing it here, with you) musical celebration of Barack Obama's inauguration, which will be held at noon tomorrow. Here is the score and a set of parts, and here is a computer-generated recording.
New Year's Piece for 2009
You can download a PDF of the whole piece on this page of the Werner Icking Archive.
Avez vous des bonbons for 2 clarinets and bassoon
This is a transcription for two clarinets and bassoon of a piece by the same name that I wrote for two violins and cello. You can listen to it here.
Like the string version, it is available from Subito, but you will need to call the phone number (973) 857-3440
to order it, since it is not in their on-line catalog.
(You could certainly play the piece with two clarinets and cello instead of bassoon.)
Transcription: Kol Nidre for two instruments
Transcription: Kol Nidre for Solo Viola
I have been playing this version of Kol Nidre for years and years of Yom Kippur services, and I decided that this year it is time to share it with other string players (to play next Yom Kippur--or simply to play for non-religious reasons). I have put transcriptions of it for violin and cello on the Werner Icking Archive, but it sounds best on the viola, of course.
I also made a useful mix and match transcription of this for two wind instruments.
Sonata d'amore
Granted, this is a piece for a self-selecting group of musicians. I wrote it to play with my friend John Dee, who, like other oboe players who own oboes d'amore, get to play them only rarely. As for viola d'amore players, they (or I guess I can now say "we") need new music for our instrument.
Curious about the viola d'amore? You can find out a lot about the instrument by visiting the Viola d'amore Society of America
The score and parts are available here, and here.
Sonata for Euphonium and Piano
December 2007
A PDF of the whole piece is available (with both a bass and treble clef euphonium part) on my AMC page, where you can also hear a recording of a performance that Charley Brighton and Malcolm Stowell played on November 22, 2008 in England. You can also hear it (and download the music, if you like) though my page on the Werner-Icking Music Archive.
Cloud 999
April 28, 2008
I have always been fascinated by Gounod's Ave Maria, and have always wanted to try writing an obbligato of my own on top of a prelude by Johann Sebastian Bach. Mine is for violin and piano, does not have words, and uses two passes of Bach's Prelude BWV 999. You can listen to a recording and download the score of Cloud 999 here and here.
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