Other Bernhard Philipp Eder
Abschied (Farewell) - for woodwind trio & string quartet (2009)

listen to the recording and watch the score on youtube: youtu.be/Kyr87udw3fo

performed by:
Trio Furioso
Oboe - Agnes Glassner
Clarinet - Kerstin Höller
Bassoon - Christina Stranz

Scripcaru-Quartett
Violin I - Ion Scripcaru
Violin II - Tanja Zivkovic
Viola - Dima Nedyalkova
Violoncello - Irena Zagorac

conducted by Bernhard Eder

Live recording May 15th, 2009 at St.Michael's church Vienna, Austria.

This piece was commissioned by Johannes Pokorny (Anna-Junge Klänge).
The first performance of it occured on April 16th, 2009 at St.Anna's church Vienna, Austria.

What meaning do we connect with the words goodbye or farewell?
Be it the farewell from a beloved person one might never see again, be it a temporary goodbye which holds the joy of looking forward to a reunion, or maybe the farewell of a part of yourself in order to develop into a new section of live.

I tried to incorporate these different situations, feelings and considerations into this piece, which builds a up as dialogue between the two ensembles, based on a 6-tone motive.

I started to work on „Abschied“ back in February 2009 as a commission for a concert where both a woodwind trio and a string quartet would perform each in a separate section of it.

The organisers asked me to write a piece that would combine both ensembles and also could be performed with very little rehearsal time at hand.
So I tried to work around the problem of coordination with either controlled aleatoric structures and switching the main focus back and forth between these two ensembles.