from the album 6:5 (six to five)

from the composition collection "IX Ricercare per uno violoncello"

Sheet music and album available on:

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This recording was done in my friend's basement in Minot, North Dakota. I had freshly graduated from my undergraduate music degree. In time, I was about to find out (while studying early music) that I needed to write cello music! This recording, named Shigionoth is in four parts, essentially four complete, but out of context sketches in my composition book. This was a proto-attempt at discovering how different but related ideas could work together. The music in these ideas would later become two different works - Lullaby (2009) and Stars of Twilight (2010). (I added a little processing, to even the volume and make the transitions as smooth as possible). Enjoy!

Arts Village Songs of Kralizec Show **LIVE** These pieces were performed live at the Arts Village on the Bowling Green State Univ. campus last spring 2016 for the Jason Charney was the recording engineer. This recording has minimal processing, and stands as is, flaws and all. Enjoy!

This Ricercar is titled with a Quenya Elvish name, meaning "song of the stirring." coirë is the Elvish transitional season between Winter and Spring, where the forest creatures begins stirring and the trees start carefully sprouting and the ice melts. Lin always means " song." It is a Song of the Stirring, perhaps a stirring of the heart.

Arts Village Songs of Kralizec Show **LIVE** These pieces were performed live at the Arts Village on the Bowling Green State Univ. campus last spring 2016 for the Jason Charney was the recording engineer. This recording has minimal processing, and stands as is, flaws and all. Enjoy!

Ricercar VI: al-tascheth is about weaving, changing the status quo of normal reality, praying and asking for divine intervention. After all, a spell is simply the weaving of words. If you argue that, look up the history of our English word for spelling. If our words have power to destroy, then they have power to build. This is a weaving of powerful intent, a prayer, asking wordless things from my Maker. Al-tascheth is Hebrew for "do not destroy" - song structure which King David utilized in the Temple. It's as if it is a request for a protective covering over someone...

Arts Village Songs of Kralizec Show **LIVE** These pieces were performed live at the Arts Village on the Bowling Green State Univ. campus last spring 2016 for the Jason Charney was the recording engineer. This recording has minimal processing, and stands as is, flaws and all. Enjoy! Ricercare V: adalindalë (Quenya Elvish for "father's song") although written for my dad, was made of ideas that I wrote before his accident which almost claimed his life. It was fitting after seeing a man full of life and wisdom kept alive by cold machines in a coma that the ideas were distilled into the whiskey it is today. It's a song of tenderness and gentleness.

Arts Village Songs of Kralizec Show **LIVE** These pieces were performed live at the Arts Village on the Bowling Green State Univ. campus last spring 2016 for the Jason Charney was the recording engineer. This recording has minimal processing, and stands as is, flaws and all. Enjoy!

Ricercar IV: the exulting ones derives its title from the book of Isaiah, the oracle against Babylon. They are the Mighty Ones who execute His anger, the Weapons of His Indignation. It's a song of the highest of rejoicing.

Arts Village Songs of Kralizec Show **LIVE** These pieces were performed live at the Arts Village on the Bowling Green State Univ. campus last spring 2016 for the Jason Charney was the recording engineer. This recording has minimal processing, and stands as is, flaws and all. Enjoy!

Ricercare II: allasëalindalë (2007) is a sister work to Ricercare I. In Quenya Elvish is means "song of joy." It too was informed and inspired by the beauty of a new instrument, the gamba. Joy has many colors, right?

Arts Village Songs of Kralizec Show **LIVE** These pieces were performed live at the Arts Village on the Bowling Green State Univ. campus last spring 2016 for the Jason Charney was the recording engineer. This recording has minimal processing, and stands as is, flaws and all. Enjoy!

Ricercar I: lórellinyalien-lindalë (2007) is Quenya Elvish for "song of memory and emotion" but it is also about the joy of discovering a new instrument, in my case, the viola da gamba. I was enraptured by its tones and this song was a result of that. It also coincided with my brief obsession with early music cello.

for solo cello and strings and electronics. electronics by windchime[s]. composed in 2014 for the University of Minnesota - Duluth Chamber Orchestra. dedicated to my wife, [Eva] Renae.

an improvisation centered around the pitch F. Ithilin means "song of silver radiance" in Sindarin Elvish.

By the duo Aiyeleth-Shahar: Angela Tengesdal, piano. Aleks Tengesdal, cello.