Quattro Esercizi Soli (1993)

oboe, bassoon, viola, contrabass
duration: ca. 5’
SMMP No. 106

Preformance Notes
Quattro Esercisi Soli is a set of four brief instrumental pieces. The overall sensibility to the collection is similar to variation insofar as the harmonic materials are consistent in each work; however, there is no clear thematic core that connects each piece. There is, nevertheless, a shared repertoire of behaviors and a similar, quite lyrical language that functions partly to animate the musical spaces in ways that become familiar despite the broad differences in sonic character.

Ideally, these pieces would be played in a single concert (albeit not necessarily in sequence).