Paul Moravec: Tempest Fantasy

You are listening to the first movement of Paul Moravec's Pulitzer Prize-winning chamber composition Tempest Fantasy.

Tempest Fantasy, for solo clarinet and piano trio, was largely composed at Yaddo. It was written for David Krakauer and the Trio Solisti and received its world premiere May 2, 2003, at the Morgan Library in New York City.

The five-movement work (each titled Ariel, Prospero, Caliban, Sweet Airs, and Fantasia) is a musical meditation on aspects of the composer's favorite Shakespeare work, The Tempest.

A recording of Tempest Fantasy, plus Mood Swings, B.A.S.S. Variations, and Scherzo - featuring performances by David Krakauer and Trio Solisti - is forthcoming later this year from Arabesque Recordings.

Mr. Moravec has been a Yaddo guest artist six times, most recently earlier this summer, and is a former recipient of The White Flowers Residency for Composers at Yaddo.