Short Stories from the Vienna Woods
(Symphonische Szenen aus der Oper "Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald") (2019)2(=picc).2(II=corA).3(II=Ebcl,III=bcl).asax.tsax(=ssax).2.3(III=dbn)-4.3.(I=flgn).3(I=thn).1-timp(=whip).perc(3):vib/xylorimba/marimba/t.bells/glsp/crots/cyms/SD/BD(lg)/tam-t(lg)/susp.cym(lg)/BD+cyms/splash.cym(lg)/chinese.cym(lg)/dr.kit/bell.plates/TD-hrp-pft(=honky-tonk pft)-strings
Performance note
If desired, movement five, the fifth story could be sub-divided into two movements: the first would end at figure 14. The second, the ‘Epilogue’ could begin at figure 14.
Any of movements 2-6 may be omitted and the order of performance changed, however any performance of the suite must begin with movement 1 and end with movement 7.
Movements
- Introduction & Song from the Wachau
- Splintered Waltzes
- Bengal fire
- In a flash
- Chorale variations on “For the Lord disciplines the one he loves” & Epilogue
- Prayer
- Polka infernale
Abreviaturas (PDF)
Boosey & Hawkes
"...a wonderfully rich layering of Viennese musical traditions from Beethoven to Berg, each of them distorted yet still legible. The ear listens like the eye might peer through a set of photographic negatives stacked on top of each other. But the composer’s signature wit also permeates this score; his smiling eyes soften its provocation. At the end of the day, this is music not of the barricades but of the theater."
Boston Globe