Ran Blessing for the Road Birkat Haderekh – for Bb Clarinet, Violin, Violoncello, and Piano

Shulamit Ran's delicately tinted chamber work Birkat Haderekh...glowed with a sense of gentle but firm supplication, its title rendered from the Hebrew as 'Blessing for the Road.' -- Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe. ...Birkat Haderekh...is a wandering meditation on melody written for the Quartet for the End of Time ensemble: clarinet, violin, cello, piano. Cast in a single movement less than 10 minutes long, the work develops and deepens ideas introduced in a wistful opening clarinet line. Mostly introspective and direct in its appeal... -- Brian Schuth, The Boston Musical Intelligencer