Concerto for Two Violas on Themes from Smetana’s String Quartet, From My Life , premiered by The Cleveland Orchestra in November 2015.
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DUO for Two Celli14:26**DUO for Two Celli is available for a World Premiere. Please CLICK to contact Richard Sortomme if you are interested in programming a WP. Richard Sortomme · DUO for Two Celli in a synthesized version About This Composition Program Notes: DUO for Two Celli,Read more →
Prelude & Dance, for Viola and String Orchestra Craig Mumm, viola, Barron Collier (FL) High School String Orchestra conducted by Adam Michlin 3:16 Richard Sortomme · Prelude & Dance for Viola and String Orchestra About This Composition Program Notes: I was commissioned by Adam Michlin, conductor andRead more →
This first piano Prelude was inspired by a relatively unknown short story, The Mark, by Claudia Alberdi. Very metaphysical at its core it deals with past lives, past loves and a highly charged emotional love affair in the present…
Read more →Although I didn’t know it at the time the seeds for this double viola concerto based on themes from Smetana’s String Quartet # 1, “From My Life”, were sewn all the way back in the late 1960s. And those seeds were connected, in no small way, to The Cleveland Orchestra…
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