These will give you a sense of Jeffery Cotton's style and voice. You'll find many more recordings if you visit the List of Works page.
Click the title of any work below to listen to an MP3. To find out more about that work, click the Work Information link on the right. You'll need an MP3 player, such as the Window Media Player.
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Meditation, Rhapsody and Bacchanal: 3. Bacchanal
This is the last movement of my duo for violin and percussion, premiered in March 2005 at the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival. Joseph Lin and Svetoslav Stoyanov created quite a sensation, as you'll hear by the audience reaction at the end of the movement.
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Lyra, for string orchestra
Written in 1999 for the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra as their new composer-in-residence, this was my first new work after four years of difficult silence. It also represents a major stylistic shift for me.
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Suite from Pyramus and Thisbe: First Movement
Pyramus and Thisbe is a ballet suite in five movements. The incredible performance you'll hear is of the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra in the premiere (live) performance, Scott Yoo, Music Director. The breath-taking solo violin work is by Joseph Lin.
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Concerto for Clarinet, Strings and Harp: First Movement
This work was the second of my recent "war" pieces. This first movement reflects among other things my attempt to write satirical marches in the vein of Shostakovich. As performed by the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Scott Yoo, Music Director; Todd Palmer, Clarinet.
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Symphony for Strings: Dance
As performed by the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Scott Yoo, Music Director. January 2004 at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, New York.
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Symphony for Strings: Elegy
The Elegy was originally written as a free-standing work in memory of the Victims of September 11th, and was premiered by the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra on September 28th, 2001. Later I built my Symphony for Strings around the Elegy, and that is the recording you'll hear here, premiered by Metamorphosen in January 2004 at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, New York.
It has since been played by the New Jersey Symphony and is scheduled to be played by the Tucson Symphony in April of 2005.
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Four Quiet Songs: Second Song
The Four Quiet Songs are really just an edited, shortened and far more practical version of the Five Runic Songs. The instrumentation, which features the trumpet throughout, is trumpet, horn, bassoon, violin, cello and bass.
This is one of my several jazz-influenced chamber works.
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CityMusic for narrator and orchestra
This is a light-hearted piece for young audiences, for narrator and orchestra. It has been performed over a dozen times by the Philadelphia Orchestra, The St. Louis Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Indianapolis Symphony, and others. Yours truly is narrating in this recording and I was very nervous (I've since gotten much better at this).
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String Quartet No. 1: Overture (Excerpt)
from Cypress String Quartet: Debussy, Suk, Cotton
This work was a commission from the Cypress String Quartet, who premiered it in San Francisco in March, 2004. The commission was part of their "Call and Response" program, meaning that I had to take inspiration from two works out of the standard repertoire — the Haydn Op. 33 No. 5 and the Mozart K. 421, in this case — and they then presented the new work on several concerts in the San Franciso area together with the earlier works.
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