Luimen for trumpet, trombone, vibraphone, mandolin, guitar, and harp

Year
1997
Duration
12'
Category
Chamber

Dedication: for the Nieuw Ensemble
Buy Score: Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts: Paul Sacher Stiftung

Premiere: Mar 31, 1998/ Nieuw Ensemble / Ed Spanjaard/ Paradiso, Amsterdam

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For a number of years I had been thinking of writing a piece based on the sound of plucked instruments like the mandolin, guitar, and harp, so when the Nieuw Ensemble asked me for a piece I realized that this group had excellent players of these three instruments to which I added trumpet, trombone and vibraphone and composed a one movement fantasy whose title was chosen by the Ensemble (meaning ‘moods’). The score opens with a fast movement during which the mandolin picks out a line of short notes. A guitar solo accompanied by the group follows and the work concludes with a coda for the sextet. The music was composed during the early summer of 1997 in Southbury, Connecticut.

– Elliott Carter

Recordings (3)

David Starobin: New Music with Guitar, Volume 6
Bridge Records 9144 (2004)
Speculum Musicae, William Purvis, conductor | Raymond Mase, trumpet | Michael Powell, trombone | David Starobin, guitar | June Han, harp | William Anderson, mandolin (+1)
Nieuw Ensemble: Homages & Dedications
Auvidis Montaigne MO 782089 (2003)
Nieuw Ensemble, Ed Spanjaard, conductor | Hans Wesseling, mandolin | Helenus de Rijke, guitar | Ernestine Stoop, harp | Herman Halewijn, vibraphone | Ad Welleman, trumpet (+19)
The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Four
Bridge Records 9111 (2001)
David Starobin, guitar | William Purvis, conductor | Susan Narucki, soprano | Speculum Musicae: Stephen Taylor, oboe; Allen Blustine, clarinet; Curtis Macomber, violin (+2)