For solo soprano saxophone (or Eb clarinet), clarinet and marimba, includes score and parts. Yehuda Yannay has crafted an exciting trio that features three virtuoso players in five contrasting movements that will thrill any audience and challenge any musician. Duration: ca. 13'
Print size: Legal (8.5 x 14")
Review from Percussive Notes:
Five Pieces for Three Players
Yehuda Yannay
Written in 1994, “Five Pieces for Three Players” is a substantial work for mixed trio. The first movement, “Coming Full Circle,” is characterized by pairs of instruments performing material together, interspersed with responses from the third instrument. The second movement, “Raindrop Variations,” is simultaneously light and dense. The marimba provides an ostinato upon which the winds weave and flit around. The third movement, “Hyperbreath,” allows the wind players to experiment with bird sounds and portamenti, and the fourth movement, “Duetting in Light Winds,” is for the wind duo alone. The final movement, “Short-Long-Short Dance,” is the most regular of the movements, in 4/4 time throughout, and generally based on a repeating ostinato. This movement ends somewhat strangely, as the rhythmic nature of the work gradually devolves and trickles to a stop.
This piece requires three professional-level performers, not only for its technical and rhythmic difficulty but for the musical maturity to put forth a compelling musical product. Some movements may be appropriate for undergraduate-level percussionists, though the wind parts require
more from the performers. The overall effect of this work is satisfying and worth the effort to put together.
—Jamie Wind Whitmarsh, 2020
Demo:
