- Stephen Albert
TreeStone (1983)
- G Schirmer Inc (World)
- 1010/1100/perc/hp.pf/str5t
- Soprano, Tenor
- 45 min
- based on James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
Media
TreeStone: Part I: I am Leafy Speafing
TreeStone: Part I: A Grand Funferall
TreeStone: Part I: Sea Birds
TreeStone: Part II: Tristopher Tristan
TreeStone: Part II: Fallen Griefs
TreeStone: Part II: Anna Livia Plurabelle
Reviews
“TreeStone” is a through-composed, richly evocative, multi-textured and thoroughly engaging work for soprano, tenor and chamber ensemble. Like Joyce’s novel, the piece is witty, obscure, and utterly fascinating. It deals simultaneously with sacred, mythic and sacrilegious material, all woven together masterfully.
”TreeStone” is a beautifully conceived work, from the handling of it s tonal and motivic material to the tempo of its mood changes. Most striking of all is Albert’s success in managing the kind of long, long line that very few composers since Mahler have attempted. His sense of formal breadth and his ability to sustain it, through both a sophisticated development and an astute pattern of repetition and return, clearly show Albert’s mastery.
Discography
- LabelDelos
- Catalogue NumberDelos DE 3059