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ISBN 9781491149409. UPC: 680160906901. 9 x 12 inches.
Composed for Soprano, Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Violin, Cello, and Piano, Daniel S. Godfrey's Juliet at her Window includes four texts taken primarily from Act II, Scene II of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, with supplemental passages from elsewhere in the play. Lines are combined and/or rearranged to form brief, thematically related stanzas in each song. Godfrey's intention was to focus on Juliet's breathless optimism and extroverted declarations of love, while hinting at the pathos, denial, and isolation from reality that he believes underly them.
SKU: CF.B3467
ISBN 9781491156773. UPC: 680160915316. 9 x 12 inches.
Paginula is Latin for little page or short letter. As a title, it connotes something similar to album leaf or moment musical. Daniel Godfrey completed this work as a contribution to Boston-based Music for Food, an organization in which Kim Kashkashian - viola professor at the New England Conservatory - and her colleagues volunteer extraordinary, memorable performances in concerts whose proceeds go entirely to combating food insecurity, homelessness and domestic violence.
SKU: CF.CY3256
ISBN 9780825881947. UPC: 798408081942. 8.5x11 inches.
Reviewers, trying to find a label for Godfrey's music, will compare him to Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, even Barber, using words such as lyrical, lush, and always tonal and melodic. 2004 saw the release of an all-Godfrey CD, including String Quartet No. 2, by the Cassatt String Quartet, an album that the New Yorker hailed as one of the 10 best of that year. Formerly available only on a rental basis, String Quartet No. 2 is now available for sale. Real sensual warmth, with a touch of the sensibility of Schoenberg's Transfigured Nightà These very touching works are completely tonal and basically pick up from the point where music was derailed some four score years ago... It is remarkable that music like this is being written, recorded, and widely celebrated. Robert Reilly, Surprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music (Ignatius Press).
SKU: CF.B3444
ISBN 9780825887321. UPC: 798408087326. 9 x 12 inches.
From 1990, Godfrey's Arietta for cello and piano is a delightful duo for two. It opens with a quiet uncertainty, swells to a rhapsodic denouement, and fades away in requiescence. (program notes) For advanced performers. Duration: 7'.
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ISBN 9781491151167. UPC: 680160908660. 9 x 12 inches.
For the 20th anniversary season of the Cassatt String Quartet, Godfrey created a three-movement work that has been hailed as some of the most ambitious chamber music we have heard from any living composer. (New Music Connoisseur) Built on the concept of looking back/looking forward, Ricordanza-Speranzo opens with a quiet, reflective movement, before a furious second movement of ever-shifting meter (con furore). The third movement begins with a piano solo passage. Natalie Zhu, who performed the Philadelphia premiere with the Daedalus Quartet, says, There's a huge piano solo at the beginning, and it's almost like an improvisation. It's written out but it feels like you're improvising. When the strings join in, Zhu says, It's almost like a waltz. It's lively and pretty, and the strings and piano are having fun. We're trading melodies. It's almost like a conversation between the instruments.
SKU: GI.G-008690
UPC: 641151081045. Text by Francis Patrick Sullivan.
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ISBN 9780825876059. UPC: 798408076054. 8.5 x 11 inches.
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ISBN 9780825886881. UPC: 798408086886. 9 x 12 inches.
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ISBN 9781491162200. UPC: 680160920952.
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ISBN 9780825886898. UPC: 798408086893. 11 x 17 inches.
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ISBN 9780825886317. UPC: 798408086312. 8.5 x 11 inches.
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ISBN 9780825888380. UPC: 798408088385. 11 x 17 inches.
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ISBN 9780825882555. UPC: 798408082550. 8.5 x 11 inches.
From the liner notes by Earplay, who counts Numina among its repertoire of contemporary ensemble pieces: Numina is in one movement with four sections. It is a tussle with, and tribute to, those quirky, ineffable, intoxicating, sometimes mischievous spirits or life impulses --numina-- that spring forth when notes are strung together. For advanced performers. Duration: 13'.
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ISBN 9780825871436. UPC: 798408071431. 8.5 x 11 inches.
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ISBN 9780825876035. UPC: 798408076030. 9.5 x 13 inches.
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ISBN 9780825876028. UPC: 798408076023. Poems of Emily Dickinson.
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ISBN 9780825890024. UPC: 798408090029. 8.5 x 11 inches.
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ISBN 9780825894381. UPC: 798408094386. 11 x 17 inches.