Nur Stimmen!

Wernick's Second Woodwind Quintet was composed in November, 2016 for the New York Woodwind Quintet. A work that makes use of the color palette of the winds to differentiate the strands of counterpoint&Wernick's use of klangfarbenmelodie (sound-colors melody), in which the same pitch is repeated by (or traded to) another instrument was remarkable for the way in which the transfers were subtle: one could hardly tell where one instrument began and the other left off. (Frank Daykin for New York Concert Review)