Clarissa Bevilacqua plays 'Caprice' by Augusta Read Thomas [Digital Release]

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“Clarissa Bevilacqua steps into the limelight in her debut album, as a musician of quite spectacular musicality, technical mastery and artistic vision.”

Caprice is marked "Passionate and rubato; like a jazz improvisation. Accentuate the variety of characters." Made up of several phrases, each of which ends on a fermata, the works characters include: majestic, playful, elegant, spirited, jazzy, calmly floating, bold, with repose, passionate, resolute, assertive, and graceful.  The form is slightly unusual in that the five phrases are of asymmetrical length.  They last 20, 30, 40, 110, 120 seconds long, respectively, giving the feeling that the first three phrases are warming up to, and building energy and material for, the longer final two phrases.   As if the "improviser" takes the materials a little further "out" (in the jazz sense of that word) with each successive phrase.  The piece accumulates - rather than being in one of the standard forms, such as ABA form, or rondo form.—Augusta Read Thomas

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