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World Premiere of Pierre Jalbert's Triple Set with The Webster Trio

Sep. 08, 2016

World Premiere of Pierre Jalbert's <em>Triple Set</em> with The Webster Trio

On September 14, The Webster Trio give the world premiere of Pierre Jalbert’s Triple Set for flute, clarinet, and piano at the Duncan Recital Hall at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston.

Triple Set was commissioned by the Flute/Clarinet Duos Consortium, an organization of 17 groups which will give the premiere performances of the work. Flutist Leone Buyse and clarinetist Michael Webster, colleagues of Jalbert’s at Rice University, join pianist Robert Moeling for the world premiere. The composer writes:

The piece is in three contrasting movements. The first movement, “Driving”, marked “With great energy”, is rhythmically propelled forward by the piano’s muted strings and the flute and clarinet playing at first in rhythmic unison, then each taking a turn at solos while the other participates in the accompanimental syncopations. The second movement, “Still”, is marked “Timeless” and slowly unfolds its melodic and harmonic ideas. The third movement, "Relentless", is a kind of 6/8 scherzo, which vigorously and relentlessly propels itself forward to the end, with just two minor interruptions of quasi-cadenza like passages for flute and clarinet duo.

The trio perform the work again on September 29 in Xalapa, Mexico. 

For more information on Pierre Jalbert, visit schott-music.com.

Pierre Jalbert
Triple Set (2016)
for flute, clarinet, and piano
12’

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