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David Jaeger: Songs Without Words
The Scottish poet, David Cameron, with whom I have collaborated often, made the observation that the six female characters mentioned in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land seemed, in his view, to be rather narrowly defined. Cameron chose to write six poems in which he expanded on these characters, giving them deeper, more fully-formed images. The six Cameron poems … Read more
Night Music by David Jaeger performed by The Iris Trio
The Iris Trio (Christine Carter, clarinet; Zoë Martin-Doike, viola; Anna Petrova, piano) performed David Jaeger’s Night Music in the D. F. Cook Recital Hall at the School of Music of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador (MUN) on January 16th, 2025. Composed for the Iris Trio in 2020, Night Music is a colouristic and virtuoso … Read more
A Little Swan Suite by David Jaeger based on Poems by David Cameron performed by the Swan Ensemble
Music by David Jaeger Swan Ensemble: ViolinsColli ChanCristina Morell ViolasJordi MorellHelena Sánchez CelloNatalie Morell Edited by Stephen Cameron Poems by David Cameron I call a blessingDown on your head.A shadow’s movingIn the oyster bed. I hear a whisperIn the loudest room.I see an angelPerched on my tomb. Angel oh angel,Put down your pen.Did I love … Read more
David Jaeger: Rilke Duo No. 1 for violin and viola
Veda Hingert-McDonald (violin) and Marlena Pellegrino (viola)
Diptych – Lament and Defiance
Ann Murdocca – clarinet, Sonya Sim – from Ann’s ADP recital at the Glenn Gould School on May 13th, 2025.
Matti Pulkki performs David Jaeger’s Shadowbox
Recorded by Tim Roth and David Jaeger as part of the Centre BPMC Residency, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto.