LLEF, a flute and cello duo by the Welsh-born composer Hilary Tann, is a drone-anchored meditation with breathy pentatonic lines that mingle in the shadows of Welsh hymns. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor weaves endlessly inventive, folk-inflected melodies that Shimmer in a nest of Brahmsian form and Dvořák-esque harmony for his robust quintet for clarinet and strings. Light keyboard filigree provides the titular sparkle for Jennifer Higdon’s glimmering, neo-tonal confection Summer Shimmers for winds and piano. A new work for oboe, viola, and piano by the winner of the Pappalardo Composition Award rounds out the program.
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR – Quintet for clarinet and strings in F# minor, Op. 10 (1906)
HILARY TANN – LLEF for flute and cello (1995)
JENNIFER HIGDON – Summer Shimmers for winds and piano (2004)
Plus a New Work for oboe, viola and piano, by the winner of the Pappalardo Composition Award
Ensemble-in-Residence
