Vivian Fine

 

Compositions

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Songs and Arias


year

1989


duration

16 minutes


instrumentation

French horn, violin, and cello


commission

David Jolley


première

July 12, 1990, Portland, Oregon, Chamber Music Northwest; David Jolley, French horn, Eriko Sato, violin, and Fred Sherry, cello


recording

Available on demo CD


movements
  1. Love-Song
  2. Elizabethan Song
  3. Rupert’s Aria from the opera “Unfulfilled”
  4. Arioso
  5. Duet (homage to Claude Debussy)
  6. Aria from the cantata “Leben O süsses schreckliches Leben”
  7. Canto Hondo (Deep Song)

program notes

Songs and Arias for French Horn, Violin and Cello is my most recent work based on vocal forms. Lieder for Viola and Piano was written in 1979, Toccatas and Arias for Harpsichord in 1986, Toccatas and Arias for Piano in 1987, Madrigali Spirituali, for trumpet and string quartet, in 1989. There is a wide range of moods in Songs and Arias: the elegiac mood of the Arioso, the intensity of Canto Hondo, the parodies Rupert’s Aria (from the non-existent opera “Unfulfilled”) and the Aria from the equally non-existent Cantata.

 –Composer’s note to the score


audio files

Love-Song

Duet