Note
Chaccones and passacaglias have always been some of my favorite things to write. As a listener and a composer, I love the security that comes from being supported by a predictable bass line, and just as much, the feeling of real, physical change evoked by a departure from that bass line.
Trade Winds is a chaccone surrounded by two bookends: a big, busy introduction and a short, hesitant coda. The meat of the piece, though, is the exchange of long, vocal lines passed back and forth between the instruments over repeating harmonies, leading to the obligatory ground-shifting moment.
Mike Zell’s inventive percussion setup. Note the proper use of moleskin.
Listen
Timo Andres: Trade Winds
recorded Zankel Hall at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
performers Ensemble Connect
Purchase
Purchase
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Trade Winds score & parts, print edition
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Trade Winds score & parts, PDF edition
18 pages, 11×17 format. Includes full score and 7 parts.
