In Conversation Pieces, Left Coast investigates musical dialogues, as Schumann’s imagined characters, Eusebius and Florestan, present contrasting points of view in the composer’s piano quartet, and viola and bass muse about the past in Sándor Veress’s Memento. A new work by Left Coast composition contest winner Steven Snowden addresses nine questions from the devil, while Failing showcases Left Coast’s virtuoso double-bassist Michel Taddei as he simultaneously narrates and plays.
Steven Snowden · The Devil’s Nine Questions
2010 Left Coast Composition Contest Winner
Veress· Memento for Viola and Double Bass
Tom Johnson· Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass
Schumann· Quartet for Piano and Strings in E-flat major, Opus 47