Laurence Dresner

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COMPOSITIONS - Instrumental

" . . . music . . . wrenchingly touching . . . dazzlingly exciting . . . "   Newhouse Newspapers

 

Woodwinds

Bird (sopranino sax)

Calling for Flute, Oboe and Piano

Concerto for Low Flute 8' 24" (piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute, contrabass flute) - Mvt. 1 - Agile Gigant; Mvt. 2 - Just Another Movie Love Song; Mvt. 3 - The Neverending Ending

Flute Loose in the Big Easy (flute choir) 3' 15"

Funk and Variations (flute choir) 3' 10"

Ruminations (contrabass clarinet)

My Contra Blues (duet for two low flutes) 4' 40"

Sauntering Down the Boulevard Duet (low flute and high flute) 4' 0""

Sauntering Down the Boulevard (flute choir)

Transfigurations for Flute Choir


Brass

Remembrances (ten brass instruments)

Solo for Trombone

Transformare for Horn Quartet 4' 14"

Transgressions and Permutations (double trombone quartet) 4' 0"" (selected by and performed at the International Trombone Festival 2019 in Muncie, Indiana)

Fanfare for a Floundering Nation - for trombone choir

 

Solo Instrument and Chamber Music

First Dance (piano and orchestra)

I Tend a Nomadic Fly (piano) 5' 36"

Suite for Two Clarinets, Piano, and Harp

 

Loss (woodwind quintet, piano, string quintet) 4' 28"

Pastorale for Piano, Clarinet, and Violin 3' 0''

 

Two Movements for Piano Trio (piano, violin, cello) - Mvt. 1 - Serenade 3' 32"; Mvt. 2 - I Promised You We'd Go Dancing 3' 3" - performed by members of the American Chamber Ensemble

Two Movements for Piano Trio - another interpretation performed by Ensemble 132.

 

Pavane for a Lost Love for Piano Trio - performed by Ensemble 132

Piece for Flute, Percussion and Tape

 

Salvation (string quartet) 6' 0"

String Symphony for Young Adults 4' 6"

We Can’t Find Our Bows Blues (Flute, Harp, Violin, Viola, Cello) 3’ 4”

Winter Solstice (chamber orchestra) 3' 46"

Woodwind Quintet - Mvt. 1 - Dusk 2' 42"; Mvt. 2 - Dancing in the Moonlight 5' 26"

World premiere performance of Woodwind Quintet by Laurence Dresner, commissioned
and performed by the Monmouth Winds at the NJ Flute Society concert, March 29, 2015
at the First Baptist Church in Westfield, NJ. Jenny Cline, flute; Nicholas Gatto, oboe;
Richard Grossman, clarinet; Richard Sachs, horn; Linda Balavram, bassoon


Scores are available from Alry Publications, Scorevivo, Subito Music Corp., and Laurence Dresner.