Tempest Fantasy is a 2003 chamber music composition in five movements for cello, clarinet, violin, and piano by the American composer Paul Moravec.
[1] The title of the work comes from the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
[2][3][4] Tempest Fantasy has a duration of approximately thirty minutes and is composed in five movements:
Moravec commented on the composition in the program notes for the work, saying:Tempest Fantasy is a musical meditation on various characters, moods, situations, and lines of text from my favorite Shakespeare play, The Tempest.
The fourth movement begins from Caliban's uncharacteristically elegant speech from Act III, scene 2: "Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not."