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CD55: Burdick's Duets

CD54CD TourCD56

 
   Burdick, Opuses 288, 289, 290, 291, 294, 295                                      and older works too

This two CD set has been in process more than year!
It was only when I started mastering the music with
double bass like it was rock and roll that I finally found the idea sound for the CD.

1) Opus 294 Duet for horn and piccolo
2) Opus 295 Duet for horn and ‘cello
3) Opus 291 Duet for clarinet and horn No. 2
4) Opus 290 Duet for double bass and violoncello
5) Opus 289 Duet for horn and viola
6) Opus 288 Duet for horn and trombone
7) Opus 243   Bozeman Duets for horn and bassoon
8) Opus 203   SISoDU for horn & trumpet
9) Opus 163 Mandala No. 4 for horn and violin,
10) Opus 142b  Duet for horn and oboe
11) Opus 108    Duet for flute and horn "Rupavati"
12) Opus 72 Suite in D for violin and horn,
13-17 Duo "The Holy Fountain" for horn and double bass, Op. 54
18) November for two oboes, Op. 50b
19) Opus 35   Duet for clarinet and horn No. 1, (1/1987)
20) Opus 17   A Puff of Smoke for flute, horn & drums
22) PRE-ES: Essay for horn and Bassoon
23) PRE-Hu: Huber Suite No. 1 for Horn and violoncello (1978)  

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Released: June 5, 2021

Program Notes:

It is the morning of June 5, 2021. I have been out watering the garden, everything is growing fast, and the days are nice and warm now.

This CD has music I wrote from 1977 - 2021; it's a 43 year retrospective.

I have been listening to this CD in the car for the past month. I guess the "state of the art" for me now is how long can I keep doing edits to the recording until I just have to move on. I released CD57 before this (CD55), and it seems I have no trouble going "back in time" since I just decided that I am going to redo my CD11 Duets for two horns as a series sort of like my Opus 99, which has a whole bunch of different works all based on scales version one . . . I think the new CD11 will have at least five sub parts (CD11a, 11b etc.) all based around the new version of my horn duets Op. 292.

This CD is all the duets I have written so far except the horn duets. I did all the recording of all the instruments myself. For the trumpet I recored with my horn and manipulated the tone to sound like a trumpet with my recording program. The trombone duet is mostly done with Wagner Tuba and not trombone, but the places where the trombone slides around, this is recorded on trombone (with a French horn mouthpiece) so the timber of the "trombone" varies through the duet.

All the other instruments on the CD (except horn) are recorded using the SWAM instruments. I love SWAM (Expressive Virtual Instruments and Live Performance Software SWAM is a new-generation technology that enables musicians, performers, and composers to expand their creativity. The SWAM engine combines concepts of Physical Modeling and Behavioral Modeling with the Multi-Vector/Phase-Synchronous Sample-Morphing technique.) I play them with the piano keyboard and a breath controller. The breath adds phrase shape, volume, articulation and vibrato making the instruments sound alive.

This CD really started with the crash of my computer in September of 2020. I kept working on composing and recording, but I did not want to do anything too big until I solved my computer problems. I made a list of the duets I had written and found I just needed a few more to have a duet for horn and all the other instruments. These duets only take a few days to write. I still need to write for tuba, contra bassoon and the saxophones, so there most likely will be another CD of duets someday.

About the Music:

The music on this CD is presented from newest to old. Tracks one through five are quite new and I was really just trying to write nice music. These duets are part of an exploration of using the I Ching scale and harmonic signatures in an attempt to create a form like Haydn did with the symphony.

The horn and trombone duet, Op. 288 is still more a part of the planets series I presented in CD49. That is exploring the idea that weird is never rally that weird.

SiSoDu, Op. 203 was written on my trip the Washington D.C. I have memories of sitting poolside, waiting for a car repair, and driving. It's a very traditional work.

Duet in Retrograde, is now dedicated to Betsy Raum, who I worked with for many years in the RSO.

Around 1990, I used to rent a cabin in Volcano California with a friend where we had weekend retreats that included hiking and duets. Where I wrote Suite in D, Op. 72

The opus 54 is a long and very serious duet written at the time I won my job for Sacramento Symphony. It was played on the Trinity Chamber Concerts series, but I had to pass the horn part to Janis Lieberman who premiered it.

November, Clarinet duet, and A Puff of Smoke are from the 1980's the details of when and why I wrote these are mostly forgotten.

I remember well the music I wrote in High School. Spectrum is an organization of the 12 intervals that occur in a octave. Huber suite was performed on The El Cerrito High School Chamber music night in 1978 with Kyra Wolf on 'cello. The Essay I submitted to my English class instead of writing a real essay that I was supposed to do. I wasn’t the best student.

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About the Recording:

This multi track recording were in process from September, 2020 to June 2021

Cover Photo : Flowers in Galcier National Park by R Burdick

About the Performer:

Richard Burdick as a musician:
French hornist: Richard O. Burdick is the first horn of Regina Symphony Orchestra and the Regina Symphony Chamber Players in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a prolific composer.

His move to Canada in 2003, with his wife Rebecca and his two boys, marked the start of the fourth major period in his musical Career.

In the 1980’s Richard was first Horn of Napa Symphony, a member of a San Francisco based theater orchestra and played lots of chamber music as manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts, a chamber music series in Berkeley California.

Starting in 1990 he played fourth Horn full-time for Sacramento Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1996. He then won auditions for Fresno Philharmonic, Napa & North State Symphonies and played in Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera.

He is a prolific composer and has many self produced CD’s of his own compositions, Bach, his classical natural horn playing and multi-track performances of many of his favorite pieces.

He performs on a variety of horns, a baroque natural horn (1720), a classical era natural horn (1800), a romantic era (1840's) natural horn, a single F horn from the 1880's, his main symphony horn is a Brendan Model Finke triple horn.

He has also done many music related jobs such as arranger for Sacramento Symphony, librarian and personal manager for Sacramento Philharmonic, and manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts (chamber music series) in Berkeley, California for 19 years starting in 1984.

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Tracks List:

# Microtonal I Ching Cycles length
1.
Duet for horn and piccolo, Op. 294
5:44
2.
Duet for horn and ‘cello, Op. 295
11:26
3.
Duet for clarinet and horn No. 2, Op. 291
8:12
4.
Duet for double bass and violoncello, Op. 290
7:29
5.
Duet for horn and viola, Op. 289
10:08
6.
Duet for horn and trombone, Op. 288
6:44
7.
SiSoDu (Simple Sonata Duet) for trumpet and horn, Op. 203 v.3
4:37
8.
Bozeman Duets for horn and bassoon, Op. 243
7:36
9.
Mandala No. 4 for horn and violin, Op. 163
6:04
10.
Duet in Retrograde for horn and oboe,
Op. 142b
0:55
 
CD1                                                          Total time
69:15
11.
Duet for flute and horn "Rupavati", Op. 108
5:45
12.
Suite in D for violin and horn, Op. 72
10:46
13.
Duo "The Holy Fountain" for horn and
                             double bass,
Op. 54 No. 1
6:29
14.
Duo "The Holy Fountain" for horn and
                              double bass,
Op. 54 No. 2
3:42
15.
Duo "The Holy Fountain" for horn and
                              double bass,
Op. 54 No. 3
3:03
16.
Duo "The Holy Fountain" for horn and
                            double bass,
Op. 544 No. 4
3:05
17.
Duo "The Holy Fountain" for horn and
                              double bass,
Op. 54 No. 5
4:14
18.
November for Two oboes, Op. 50b
2:49
19.
Duet for clarinet and horn No. 1, Op. 35
7:04
20.
A Puff of Smoke for flute, horn and drum set, Op. 17
4:24
21.
Spectrum II an improvisation for horn & bassoon, Op. 2a
3:29
22.
Huber Suite No. 1 for Horn and violoncello (1978) Pre-opus-Hu
7:23
23.
Essay for horn and Bassoon (1978) Pre-opus-Es
2:52
 
CD2                                                          Total time
66:06
 
CD1 & 2                                                   Total time
135:22

Richard Burdick’s Horn & swam ensemble

Duet for horn and piccolo, Op. 294

Duet for horn and ‘cello, Op. 295

Duet for clarinet and horn No. 2, Op. 291

Duet for double bass and violoncello, Op. 290

Duet for horn and viola, Op. 289

Duet for horn and trombone, Op. 288

SiSoDu (Simple Sonata Duet) for trumpet and horn, Op. 203 v.3

Bozeman Duets for horn and bassoon, Op. 243

Mandala No. 4 for horn and violin, Op. 163

Duet in Retrograde for horn and oboe, Op. 142b

Duet for flute and horn "Rupavati", Op. 108

Suite in D for violin and horn, Op. 72

Duo "The Holy Fountain" for horn and double bass, Op. 54
1. Were there such as stillness
2. Piece by piece the fragments fall
3. Serene upon the tide
4. What hidden waves wash unbeknown
5. A holy fountain rises here

November for Two oboes, Op. 50b

Duet for clarinet and horn No. 1, Op. 35

A Puff of Smoke for flute, horn and drum set, Op. 17

Spectrum II an improvisation for horn & bassoon, Op. 2a

Huber Suite No. 1 for Horn and violoncello (1978) Pre-opus-Hu

Essay for horn and Bassoon (1978) Pre-opus-Es

 

 

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CD47 - I Ching Rhythms,Op. 209

CD46 - A Rainbow of
              I Ching triads

CD45 - North American
              Horn Music

CD44 - Opening the Sphinx

CD43 - Music of Silvio Coscia

CD42 - I Sound My Horn

CD41 - American Horn Music                     vol. 2

CD40 - Retrospective II-                          The horn Quartets

CD39 - Bach
             by Popular Demand

CD38 - Matthew Locke
        Broken &  Flatte Consorts

CD37 - Microtonal music of
             Richard Burdick

CD36 - Classical Natural Horn
          Duvernoy & Schneider

CD35 - Twenty-Two Trios for                  Horns, Op. 156

CD34 - Natural Horn Music                        FOUND

CD33 - More than 64 Quartets for horns based on the I Ching

CD32 - American Horn Music
             of the 40's & 50's

CD31 - Grand Music of J. F.                   Gallay,   vol. 2

CD30 - Grand Music of J. F.                   Gallay,  vol. 1

CD29 - Astral Waves
            & Phosphor

CD28 - WAVES AND PARTICLES, opus 159 PART ONE - Waves

CD27a - Castelnuovo Tedesco                 horn quartet

CD27 - Anton Reicha Trios
            Op. 82 & 93 complete

CD26 - Accuracy Studies For the         French horn student

CD25a - Bach Cantata
                BWV 132 No. 1

CD25 - Nice Notes

CD24 - Duets, opus 132 complete in the "one takes"

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CD22 – Naderman’s Music
              for Horn and Harp

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CD20 - Classical Gas

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                Op. 26

CD19 -  Dauprat's Grand Music

CD18 - Louis-Francois Dauprat
              Duos for Horns,
                        Opus 13 vol. 2

CD17 - Favorites - Barber, Grieg, Bach BWV 82 & 225

CD16 - Howlers Revised 2006 Dauprat  Duets, Op. 14, Mozart

CD15 - J. S. Bach's Easter                        Oratorio, BWV 249

CD14 - Dauprat’s Op. 8

CD13 - 64 Duets, Op. 132                        part two #17-34

CD12 - Reveré by V. Herbert

CD11 - 64 Duets, Op. 132                         part one #1-16

CD10 - The Planets for
              solo horn, opus 19

CD 9 - Louis-Francois Dauprat
            Duos for Horns, Op. 13

CD 8 - Portal Solo Multi-phonic French horn In An Environment of drones & overtones.

CD 7 - INFINITY ONE

CD 6 - "Richard Burdick with tape"

CD 5 - "Let Me Out

CD 4 - 4.5 INCH SINGLE Aaron Blumenfeld’s Horn Sonata

CD 3  - H o w l e r s
          Louis-François Dauprat’s
         20 Duos for Natural 

CD 2 - I Ching Arpeggios

CD 1 - Rebel with a Horn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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