Caprice No. 5
Russell Peterson, September 25, 2002, Moorehead, MN.
“Caprice no. 5” was completed on February 14, 2000, and was written especially for Russell Peterson. Peterson’s remarkable recording of my work “Mahler in Blue Light” inspired me to write a virtuosic solo piece that would further explore his command of the altissimo register.
As in the other works in this series of solo Cparices (for cello, flute, alto recorder, marimba) “Caprice No. 5” is non-programmatic and formallly experimental. This work not only explores the “whole” alto saxophone, it also in an improvisation on the twenty-nine possible four-note chords. Here the chords are linked by interval and played as a melodic cadenza. –Notes by the composer
More Solo Instruments Works
Prelude and Fugue in a minor for organ solo, Opus 195
Prelude and Fugue in F major for organ solo, Opus 188
Prelude and Fugue in C major for organ solo, Opus 187
Prelude and Fugue in F major for organ solo, Opus 186
Prelude and Fugue in b minor for organ solo, Opus 185
Prelude and Fugue in A major for organ solo, Opus 184
Prelude and Fugue in Eb major for organ solo, Opus 182
Prelude and Fugue in E major for organ solo, Opus 180
Prelude and Fugue in c minor for organ solo, Opus 178
Prelude and Fugue in D major for organ solo , Opus 177
Chorale Fantasy and Fugue in e minor for organ solo, Opus 175
Prelude and Fugue in F Minor for Organ, Opus 148