Programme Note
Composer's note:
Metamorphosis, a three–movement concerto for piano and chamber orchestra, was composed at various intervals over a two-ear period (1988-1990). A number of sketches for it appeared in my work as early as the summer of 1987. Those sketches and several pages of orchestration were transferred and transformed into what became a piano quintet written for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and premiered by the Emerson Quartet and Ken Noda in January of 1989 at Lincoln Center. A joint commission for the New York Chamber Symphony and the Hoboken Chamber Orchestra allowed me to work on the realization of my original vision for this thirty-minute piece – a concerto for piano and orchestra which would evoke a journey and metamorphosis, or transformation, of the soul.
--Richard Danielpour