Martin Schlumpf: The Five Points

mirror images (Mirror Images) for viola, cello and piano (2013) 15:07

[01] I 05:50
[02] II 09:17

Michel Rouilly, viola
Thomas Grossenbacher, cello
Petya Mihneva, piano

[03] push and pull for accordion solo (2013) 11:21

Sergei Tchirkov, accordion

The Five Points for clarinet and string quartet (2012) 19:24

[04] I 01:16
[05] II 02:06
[06] III 03:33
[07] IV 06:53
[08] V 05:36

Matthew Mueller, clarinet
Galatea Quartet

[09] Puzzles for bass clarinet and computer (2011) 09:35

Matthew Mueller, bass clarinet

Pandora's Promise for alto saxophone, cello and piano (2014) 17:36
[10] I 07:04
[11] II 03:38
[12] III 06:54

Harry White, alto saxophone
Pi Chin Chien, cello
Edward Rhuston, piano

Total playing time: 73:03

05/2016

“In the five works here, all written during 2011-14, allusions to Romantic chamber music are often in evidence: Schumann's fairy tale pictures in the temporal punning of the piano trio mirror images; Brahms's Clarinet Quintet in the pivoting between formal clarity and expressive fantasy of the clarinet quintet The Five Points; and Clara Schumann's Piano Trio in the trio for alto saxophone, cello and piano Pandora's Promise – is disjunctive ideas imbued with an oblique resolution. (…) Committed readings from such artists as the excellent Galatea Quartet, and a pleasurable discovery.”

(Richard Whitehouse)