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Cinq Chansons pour Percussion - trio arrangement by David Kent with score

For all the fans of Claude Vivier's great music, I post this with the hope that one of his most personal pieces will reach even more audience and potential performers. Claude wrote Cinq Chansons for me in 1980. We both shared a love of Indonesian music and I had returned from a long trip with a collection of Gamelan instruments. Claude was so taken with them that he suggested writing a piece for solo percussion. He and I communicated over the phone during the process and he would play bits on his piano. The final result is a great piece of music, and I am very happy that it has become so popular. The solo version of the piece - like some pieces by Xenakis - requires many compromises by the performer just to execute it. Tempi, dynamics, choice of mallets, and transitions inevitably suffer in the cause of making practical choices. Even at the time of his writing the piece for me, Claude changed his original markings only as a way to accommodate these challenges. Claude's publisher Boosey and Hawkes contacted me and I decided to take the manuscript in Claude's own hand, with his original intentions and markings regarding tempi, dynamics, choice of mallets and articulation, and create a trio version. In particular, the third movement hocket treatment is exactly what Claude imagined, as he was very familiar with Balinese music and culture. The recording was played by Marl Duggan, Russ Hartenberger and myself in a studio in Toronto. Ray Dillard was the Producer. This 'arrangement' is actually a 'realization', in which all of the exact details from Claude's manuscript can finally be performed as written. I hope Cinq Chansons will continue to be so popular and that you enjoy what Claude called his 'most personal piece', which he himself unfortunately never heard. 'Let the gongs sing'