taken from the liner notes:
The concerto is an emotionally compelling, lyrical, and virtuosic postmodern work that journeys into a sound world at once invitingly familiar and yet intriguingly new.

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TRACK 4 - Concerto for Bassoon (preview 1)
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This recording contains "Goodbye My Friend" by Marjan Mozetich, a composition for flute, viola & harp.

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UNFOLDING SKY is literally a gradual unfolding of the opening melodic theme and the accompanying pattern. The climax is akin to a beam of sunlight bursting throughj a parting in the clouds, or the first brilliant rays of the rising sun as it emerges over the horizon. In WEEPING CLOUDS a melody of quiet lamentation is passed back and forth from one section of strings to another, over an ethereal floating accompaniment. Only at the very end of the piece does the constant sense of sadness lift, as the descending melodic line finally moves upward. The third postcard, A MESSENGER, conveys the idea of the infinity of the heavens and of mankind's place in the universe. It does so with extraordinarily simple means: a hauntingly simple melody glides over a hypnotic, see-sawing accompaniment.

AFFAIRS OF THE HEART: a concerto for violin and orchestra.

THE PASSION OF ANGELS: Concertant for two harps and orchestra.

This title is available on CBC Records, visit www.cbcrecords.cbc.ca, amazon.com. and on www.musiccentre.ca.

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TRACK 1 - Affairs of the Heart
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Fantasia... sul linguaggio pertuto for flute, violin, viola, and cello was commissioned in 1981 by the Galliard Ensemble with the financial assistance of the Canada Council. In 1985, the work was arranged for string orchestra and performed by the Amadeus Ensemble for a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation recording. The title 'Fantasy... for the lost language" may be considered, in a sense, an elegy for the musical language of a past era. With an unmistakable sense for modern tone colours, the energetic rhythmic pulse of the opening bars serves as a recurring element throughout the work. The lush orchestral palette of the tapestry of the work as reminiscences of unforgotten musical styles make brief, poignant appearances. The essence of Mozetich's post-modern romantic tendencies is clearly evident in his profound lyricism of melodic line and rich harmonic language.

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TRACK 1 - Fantasia
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The concerto-like El Dorado for harp and strings was written for and premiered by harpist Erica Goodman and New Music Concerts of Toronto in 1981. "I love the harp," enthuses Mozetich. "There's something magical about it, about the beauty of pure sound."

Dance of the Blind, for accordion, violin, viola and cello was commissioned in 1980 by the CBC through the interest of Two New Hours producer David Jaeger. Dedicated to accordionist Joseph Petric, the work plays on the "popular" image of the accordion.

Procession, a septet for violin, viola, 'cello, bass, clarinet, bassoon and french horn, is a Canada Council commission written in 1979. In choosing the instrumentation, Mozetich looked back fondly to the time of Beethoven and Spohr... he also looked to the past for the work's structure - a series of variations based on two simple themes reminiscent of religious chants.

Fantasia...sul un linguaggio perduto, was arranged by Mozetich for string ensemble in 1987.

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TRACK 1 - El Dorado
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TRACK 2 - Dance of the Blind
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taken from the Caliban Web-site, www.caliban.ca, "the Caliban Quartet of Bassoonists":

Their second CD, Feast, released worldwide by BIS Northern Lights features jazz pianist and composer Bill Douglas, Celtic singer Kate Crossan and percussionist Mark Duggan.

Marjan Mozetich has written ODES TO THE AMERICAS: Good Times; Blue Souls; With You I Dance (1997) for 3 bassoons & contrabassoon (Ontario Arts Council). Written for and premiered by the Caliban Quartet on February 7, 1997, Walter Hall, University of Toronto to great acclaim by critics and audience alike.

"Three energetic pieces for bassoon quartet that reflect on musical idioms of the Americas. A joy to play and a pleasure to listen to."

this title is available on www.bis.se; www.sricanada.com and on amazon.com.

taken from the liner notes

Song of Nymphs, from Erica Goodmans Juno 1995 awarding winning album 'Erica Goodman plays Canadian Harp Music', is a four movement work, Prelude, Reflection, Ritual and Freedom, by friend and composer Marjan Mozetich.

"While I was working on these pieces in the heat and noice of a city summer, I kept yearning for a beauty and peace outside modern reality. I kept imagining idilic settings in a classical, pagan world, the essance of nymphs and nature spirits rarely acknowledged in our overly rational world."

the Sonata for flute and harp was composed in Autumn 1983. By this fact alone the piece can be described as contempory. However, it is styled within "tradition" which the composer likes to classify as post-modern (a conscious avoidance of 'modernism' for the sake of greater allusions to pre-modern musical sensibilities). Thus the work is in a 3-movement classical sonata form.

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Composer Marjan Mozetich, a self-declared "avant-gardist" in his early years, has gone through many stylistic changes before arriving at what can be called a kind of "lush post-modern romanticism". Prelude and Adagietto from Three Pieces for Piano Solo offer a taste of his highly accessible yet intriguing musical language. In the Prelude glittering textures, reminiscent at times of Liszt or Rachmaninov, emerge from a subdued and murky opening and give rise to shifting melodic lines that ride atop waves of perpetual motion. The Adagietto is a deliously anachronistic piece, its' nineteenth-century facade cracking only once to reveal an apocalyptic crescendo of chromatic clusters that betrays its twentieth-century origins.

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TRACK 11 - Adagietto
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Sonata, the Sonata for flute and harp was composed in Autumn 1983. By this fact alone the piece can be described as contempory. However, it is styled within "tradition" which the composer likes to classify as post-modern (a conscious avoidance of 'modernism' for the sake of greater allusions to pre-modern musical sensibilities). Thus the work is in a 3-movement classical sonata form.

This title is available on www.bis.se, www.sricanada.com and on amazon.com.

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"Fantasia...sul liguaggio perduto" is a strongly emotional composition, in which Mozetich goes back to the expressive melody and harmonization of the end of the Romantic Movement, all of this expressed in a contemporary spoken language. The piece consists of a number of fluently flowing parts. The constant repetition of short motives gives the work a passionate character. This leads to musical highlights that shatter abruptly into new cells. We can consider this style as a search, a nostalgia for a lost language.

This title is available on www.arcobaleno.be

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Marjan Mozetich's Solos for Woodwind Quintet was composed in 1993. The intention of the suite was to educate and at the same time to entertain young people by introducing them to the world of the woodwinds, and each movement highlights the character, range, and technical abilities of an individual instrument - yet the pieces do stand on their own as small musical gems.

1) Flute a la Francaise; 2) Oboe in the Orient; 3) Clarinet a Swinging; 4) A Horn Tango; 5) Waltzing Bassoon

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Marjan Mozetich prepared his two movement Oboe Concerto (In Memory Of Friends Lost To AIDS) on a commission by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for premiere by Thirteen Strings of Ottawa. The concluding Calla Lilies, composed in the form of a brief theme and variations, was inspired by one of Robert Maplethorpe's still life photographs of flowers. Without complication or anxiety, Calla Lilies' simple melody and austere harmony conveys a resignation to the fleeting beauty of life that cannot be possessed or perpetrated.

This title is available on www.thirteenstrings.ca. and on www.musiccentre.ca.

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FIVE PIECES, for guitar solo:
1) A SPANISH SHADOW; 2) INNOCENCE; 3) APPASSIONATO 4) ANCIENT SPRING; 5) SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL- for guitar. Recorded by William Beauvais in July 1997.

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The string quartet, Lament in the Trampled Garden, recorded on this CD has a single movement and was composed for the International String Quartet Competition which was held in Banff in 1992. It contains many repetitive elements, in addition to passages that are clearly borrowed from jazz.

Marjan Mozetich belongs to the so-called Postmodern composers and adopts a seemingly classical vocabulary. Most of his compositions are melodious, uncomplicated and beautiful sounding. His work nevertheless transcends the level of the superficial Unterhaltungsmusik.

" My goal in writing this work was to offer a poetical and dramatically lyrical piece that puts the accent on the performers' interpretive skills... There is ample room for various interpretations of a music which moves from sweet sorrow to anger and aggression, to despair, to an up-beat swing, to a sense of resignation and a longing for lost beauty."

M. Mozetich was a guest composer in February 1995 during the "Week van de hedendaagse Muziek" which is organised yearly by Muzikon (concert organisation of the Conservatory of Ghent)

This title is available on www.amazon.com and contact Rene Gailly at rene.gailly@skynet.be

Masterworks for Harp
Josh Layne

Contains the SONGS OF NYMPHS by Marjan Mozetich recorded in 2001 by harpist, Josh Layne.

For audio sample or to order a cd see: joshlayne.com or amazon.com (links)

taken from the liner notes

Baroque Diversion (1985),... is Marjan Mozetich's third work for solo viola and it was commissioned by Rivka Golani with the assistance of the Ontario Arts Council. The composer revised the work in 1991 for this recording: "1985 was the tricentennial of J.S. Bach's birthday and baroque music was very much in the air. As an homage to him...I composed four pieces for viola solo in the form of a suite titled Baroque Diversion.

This title is available on www.musiccentre.ca.