Concerto for Violin and Clarinet Quartet

Hey folks!

How Exciting! My vewy fiwst post! This is a concerto I wrote about a year and a half ago, for violin accompanied by clarinet quartet (instead of orchestra). It's prolly the best thing that I've written so far (at least that I've been able to finish) and I am trying to rewrite it. In my humble opinion, its weaknesses are its constantly thick texture and awkward transitions :happy: but I'm really curious to see what y'all think.

The piece is based entirely on British and American Christmas carols and chants. It is in 3 movements plus an opening Chorale-Prelude which takes its material from the other movements.

The files are as follows:

file 1- Chorale-Prelude

First Movement (starts at 0:53), based on "All Hayle to the Days", English traditional

file 2-Second Movement, based on "O Little Town of Bethlehem" by Henry Walford Davies and "A solis Ortus Cardine (From Lands that See the Sun Arise)", a Sarum chant

file 3-Third Movement, (my favorite movement) based on English traditional "This is the truth sent from above"

Thanks for your interest!

-j

Sandberg-Violin Concerto-File1.mid

Sandberg-Violin Concerto-File2.mid

Sandberg-Violin Concerto-File3.mid

I opened these with a program that preserved the tracks well and produced very clean score. I must say that these are quite impressive compositions.

I’ll have to tell you right off the bat though that these aren’t the type of music that interests me. But just the same I can marvel at the complexity of these compositions. I only wish I had the skills to write such complex pieces to express the type of music that I do enjoy.

These are awesome compositions, I think.

Thanks! Since I wrote the piece, I have managed to change my compositional outlook around, and I now also favor a much more simple compositional style. My main problem with these is likewise that they're way too complex (and leave me no way to develop toward climaxes and so forth...) I'm really interested to see what becomes of these as I try to go back and revise them...

Well since you reviewed my piece I thought I would return you the favour ;) Wow, these are very complex pieces that is for sure. I will not even dare to try to get my head around the harmonies you used (I understand theory basics, but to me anything that strays from conventional chords and harmonies is just "chromatic"). I liked the 2nd piece the best - probably because Little town of Bethlehem is one of my favourite christmas carols. I particularly enjoyed some of the rhythm changes you used. I am sure it would sound even better with real instruments - midi players don't quite capture the tone... Impressive!