Composed in honor of the 99th birthday of Elliott Carter.

Flute/Piccolo, Bb Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano (Score and Parts).

New two-movement showcase for advanced violin and piano from Zwilich, given its world premier in February 2004 by Itzhak Perlman and Rohan De Silva.

Originally written as a piano solo for the "Carnegie Hall Millenium Piano Book", now arranged for cello and piano

LAMENT was originally composed in 1999 for solo piano, in memory of Judith Arron, whose visionary goals for Carnegie Hall were matched by her abilities to achieve them. The performance challenges in LAMENT are musical rather than technical: finding and projecting the line from beginning to end; using rubato for expressive and formal purposes; shaping phrases; achieving variety of color; and employing these dimensions to create a spontaneous and personal rendering. Two piano parts are included to provide for solo tuning as well as concert pitch performance.

Oboe, Violin, Viola, Cello.

Piano reduction by the composer.

When the family heirs to the legendary Galimir String Quartet (three sisters and a brother) gathered to commemorate the centenary birth years of these famed performers, they chose Ellen Taaffe Zwilich to commission for this honor. The composer, who has also worked professionally as a violinist, responded with a one-movement odyssey entitled Voyage, cross-breeding her own characteristic style with glimpses of Viennese waltzes and other Galimir flavor. "There is a sweet, sad lyricism to this work, a hectic discord..., some wailing and moaning, these moods alternating with dancing klezmer rhythms of Jewish wedding music that take over and make things right in the end." (Stanley Fefferman, BachTrack.com).