Shadows

Description

Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet in Bb, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn in F 1, Horn in F 2, Percussion, Piano, Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Violoncello, Contrabass — Shadows is Ellen Zwilich’s fifth piano concerto and the second concerto that Zwilich has composed for pianist Jeffrey Biegel and a consortium of many orchestras. The composer describes Shadows as a work evoking the recollection of ancestral, religious, and cultural roots in people’s constant migration. The final movement reflects the triumph of the human spirit over natural and man-made disasters. Dur.: 20’