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Scored for: 2 horns and piano (also available for clarinet, cello or horn and piano, 2 cellos and piano, horn, trombone and piano) Duration: 11:07 min. Premiere: 6/03, Sarasota Music Festival, Froydis Ree Wekre and Mary Bisson, horns, Andrea Clearfield, piano Commissioned by: Froydis Ree Wekre Published by: Angelfire Press. Contact Trudy Chan at Black Tea Music for score and parts.
CEROS
Froydis Ree Wekre and Lisa Ford, horns
Andrea Clearfield, piano 2L Label
REVIEWS
“Andrea Clearfield’s Into the Falcon’s Eye for 2 horns and piano brands this CD as ‘Save the Best for Last’. This is a jewel. Clearfield’s exploitation of the timbres and techniques – bends, glissandi, stopping and flutter – lays the souls of the instruments bare…”
-Adrienne Fox, The Horn Player (Published by the British Horn Society), April, 2005
“Into the Falcon’s Eye was commissioned by Froydis Ree Wekre and was premiered at the Sarasota Music Festival in 2003. The horn parts and the piano are skillfully intertwined. This is a trio, not a duet with accompaniment. Pitch bending and stopped horn are used very effectively. The music is interesting and well written, superbly performed, and recorded with a clarity that makes the listener feel like a part of the ensemble.”
-The Horn Call, May, 2006
“Clearfield knows her territory and made most-effective use of the horns and their many and muted colors. Hopefully off on a brilliant career, Into the Falcon’s Eye will receive a second hearing at the International Women’s Brass Conference in Illinois.”
-Gayle Williams, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, June 17, 2003
PROGRAM NOTES
Into the Falcon’s Eye was commissioned by acclaimed Norwegian horn player, Frøydis Ree Wekre, who premiered the work with hornist Mary Bisson and the composer at the Sarasota Music Festival in June, 2003. The title is drawn from a line in a poem by Manfred Fischbeck. A 7- note theme forms the primary motivic material, heard in fragments throughout the work. The contour of the motive with its mirror image may appear at times like an eye. Into the Falcon’s Eye appears on the CD Ceros on the 2L label (www.2L.no) with Frøydis Ree Wekre and Lisa Ford, horns, and Andrea Clearfield, piano. The arrangement for clarinet, cello and piano was created by the composer for the Helix New Music Ensemble of Rutgers University.
Desert Talk
by Manfred Fischbeck
Underneath the dark red wind
Close listening
Silent sinking
In the falcon’s eye
Crouched rock
Fluttering
The landscape on it’s knees
Climbs and rises
Offering
Sand and
Brush and
River moss
Into the Falcon’s Eye
Scored for: 2 horns and piano (also available for clarinet, cello or horn and piano, 2 cellos and piano, horn, trombone and piano)
Duration: 11:07 min.
Premiere: 6/03, Sarasota Music Festival, Froydis Ree Wekre and Mary Bisson, horns, Andrea Clearfield, piano
Commissioned by: Froydis Ree Wekre
Published by: Angelfire Press. Contact Trudy Chan at Black Tea Music for score and parts.
See preview score pages: INTO THE FALCON’S EYE SCORE EXCERPT (PDF)
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Listen to Froydis Ree Wekre’s recording on CEROS
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RECORDING
CEROS
Froydis Ree Wekre and Lisa Ford, horns
Andrea Clearfield, piano
2L Label
REVIEWS
“Andrea Clearfield’s Into the Falcon’s Eye for 2 horns and piano brands this CD as ‘Save the Best for Last’. This is a jewel. Clearfield’s exploitation of the timbres and techniques – bends, glissandi, stopping and flutter – lays the souls of the instruments bare…”
-Adrienne Fox, The Horn Player (Published by the British Horn Society), April, 2005
“Into the Falcon’s Eye was commissioned by Froydis Ree Wekre and was premiered at the Sarasota Music Festival in 2003. The horn parts and the piano are skillfully intertwined. This is a trio, not a duet with accompaniment. Pitch bending and stopped horn are used very effectively. The music is interesting and well written, superbly performed, and recorded with a clarity that makes the listener feel like a part of the ensemble.”
-The Horn Call, May, 2006
“Clearfield knows her territory and made most-effective use of the horns and their many and muted colors. Hopefully off on a brilliant career, Into the Falcon’s Eye will receive a second hearing at the International Women’s Brass Conference in Illinois.”
-Gayle Williams, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, June 17, 2003
PROGRAM NOTES
Into the Falcon’s Eye was commissioned by acclaimed Norwegian horn player, Frøydis Ree Wekre, who premiered the work with hornist Mary Bisson and the composer at the Sarasota Music Festival in June, 2003. The title is drawn from a line in a poem by Manfred Fischbeck. A 7- note theme forms the primary motivic material, heard in fragments throughout the work. The contour of the motive with its mirror image may appear at times like an eye. Into the Falcon’s Eye appears on the CD Ceros on the 2L label (www.2L.no) with Frøydis Ree Wekre and Lisa Ford, horns, and Andrea Clearfield, piano. The arrangement for clarinet, cello and piano was created by the composer for the Helix New Music Ensemble of Rutgers University.
Desert Talk
by Manfred Fischbeck
Underneath the dark red wind
Close listening
Silent sinking
In the falcon’s eye
Crouched rock
Fluttering
The landscape on it’s knees
Climbs and rises
Offering
Sand and
Brush and
River moss