Woodland Sketches [20'00"]

Woodland Sketches, Op. 51, is a suite of ten short piano pieces by the American composer Edward MacDowell om 1896. In depicting the New England wilderness, he mixes impressionistic techniques with elements of Native American and Southern music that collectively makes this 10-movement suite to be considered by critics and historians as containing his most skillful and distinctive works. The movements often share stylistic motifs and are recombined and summarized in the last movement “Told at Sunset.” Nathan’s orchestrations contain all 10 movements for Solo Clarinet, Harp, Celesta, and Strings and all movements are in their original keys. The 10 movements are: 1) “To a Wild Rose,” 2) “Will o’ the Wisp”, 3) “At an Old Trysting Place”, 4) In Autumn,” 5) “From an Indian Lodge”, 6) “To a Water Lily”, 7) “From Uncle Remus”, 8) “A Deserted Farm”, 9) “By a Meadow Brook”, and 10), “Told at Sunset.”