Elaine Fine's Thematic Catalog: music written in 2010

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Adaptation: Bach Prelude in G major, BWV 1007 for String Quartet

These are two settings, one with the original cello part for the cello, and with the original an octave up for viola. Here's a link to the score and parts for the cello-dominant version, and here's a link to the score and parts for the viola-dominant version. You can also listen to computer-generated recordings of both versions (the cello-dominant version is first, and the viola-dominant version, which is set at a slower tempo, is second).

June 10, 2010

UPDATE: The complete set of Preludes from all six Bach Cello Suites arranged for string quartet is now "bound" together, and you can download the whole collection on this page of the IMSLP.

Four Pieces from Doktor Faustus for Viola d'amore and Piano

December 6, 2010

Karlīna Īvāne put a performance on YouTube. If you know the Thomas Mann novel, you should recognize the references. If you haven't read the novel, I recommend reading it!

The first movement is based (loosely) on the song "Oh How Lovely is the Evening," which is discussed at length as one of the pieces that Leverkuhn (the main character) and the narrator sang together. The second movement is based on the Hetaere esmeralda row and incorporates the Tristan chord. The third movement represents the encounter with whatever it is that the narrator (who is a viola d'amore player), says that Leverkuhn encounters, be it a daemon or a hallucination of one, and the last movement is a "portrait" the little boy called Echo.

Here's a PDF file of the score (in the IMSLP)

2021 UPDATE: There is a discussion of this piece in Anna Maria Olivari's (open source) scholarly study Doktor Faustus (ver-)stimmen, which you can read about access through this link.

Birthday Piece No. 2 for Viola d'amore and Piano

April 23, 2010 (though my actual birthday is next week, April 30).
You can find the music on this page of the IMSLP. You can listen to a recording (I'm playing viola d'amore, and Hsiao-Ling Lin is playing piano) here.

This one has 51 measures for 51 years!