RSP-16 | Rick Sowash: Checkerboard
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The Swashbuckler: Homage to Korngold for flute, oboe, trumpet, piano, violin, viola & cello (2024)
String Trio No. 3 “The Hand of God” for violin, viola & cello (2024)
Loveliest of Tunes for oboe & piano (2025)
Vocalise for soprano, flute, oboe, cello & piano (2023)
String Trio No. 4 “Saints & Poets” for violin, viola & cello (2024)
Gentle Reminder for oboe & piano (2023)
Checkerboard Suite for flute, oboe, viola & cello (2023)
Description
A checkerboard consists of a pattern of contrasting squares of white and black. Taking its cue from this, each movement of Rick Sowash’s Checkerboard Suite offers two starkly contrasting musical elements. The third and final movement opposes the style of Baroque music with the style we call Ragtime, namely the styles of J.S. Bach and Scott Joplin. Checkerboard is also the title of this album of recently-composed pieces for two through seven instruments by Rick Sowash. Also included are a swashbuckling tribute to the adventure film scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, a Vocalise in the tradition of Rachmaninoff and Villa-Lobos, and The Loveliest of Tunes, a beautiful meditation on Shenandoah, a tune that has found its way into many of Sowash’s chamber works over a span of sixty years of composing.
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