Contents

• • Amis Musicaux
  • Besten Freunde
  • To Me Fair Friend

Musical Friends presents a set of three piano duets dedicated to friends of the composer. Duke Ellington once said, “I don’t write music for the piece of brass in front of the cat; I write music for the cat behind the piece of brass”. So it is with Jeffery Wilson. These piano duets have real people in mind in terms of dedication and personality and we invite you to develop your own musical friendships on this pianistic journey.

Sonnet 104 by William Shakespeare

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold
Have from the forests shook three summers’ pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turned
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burned,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.

Ah, yet doth beauty, like a dial-hand,
Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived;
So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived:
For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred:
Ere you were born was beauty’s summer dead.