Opus 132:

64 I Ching duets for two horn

These duets are in the form and or style of Fantasies

I consider my most successful composition to be my "Planets for solo horn, opus 19" because of this popular piece, I have written my "more than 64 solos for horn, opus 139" Following the writing of the solos, I went ahead with the 64 duets, I don't know why the opus numbers are sort of mixed up, especially when there are still two duets to finish as I write this in early August 2008. I have the whole set recorded, except # 50 & 60, and am now re-recording them in one-takes. One of my big projects for this season is recording all of my horn ensemble music, with a CD of the Best of and a audio DVD of the complete!

January 2012: I have made much progress with recording of my horn music. I have well over another CD of music recorded, with pieces being uncovered from my archives often! I have recently recorded my "Mind without Matter" a piece for seven players from 1979; I love this work and have included it in my CD release CD29 Astral Waves and Phosphor.

The revised version of the sheet music and CD volume one is available.
Volume one is Duets 1-34 and is sold with the one-takes recording.

$15.00

The old versions are discontinued. I will be releasing the complete version sometime in 2o11. When the complete version is released the old version will become rare and collectable!

I have one sample recording here, and the whole cd cane be found on CdBaby

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/richardoburdick9

The recording is me (Richard Burdick) in a multi-track recording. In "one-takes"
to prove that the duets can be played, sometimes only after hard work, sometime quite easily.

Richard Burdick performs his fiftieth duet from his horn duets, opus 132
in a non-stop one-take recording! (One take for each part!)

 

If your are enjoying these, please consider buying a copy of the music,

The cd is out: CHECK IT OUT!

Volume #1 (1-34) Can be found in the Canadian Music Center Libraries.

 

 

Composer Elezabeth Raum, was a college of mine in Regina Symphony until she retired in 2011. I gave her a copy of these duets (the recording with the sheet music) She was nice to critique them. I have found page two of this critque