David Blake's Four Intermezzi arranged for Violin and Piano. Composed in 1995 and premiered in 1998 Adrian Varda and Daniel Vaiman Royal Academy of Music London.

3rd movement of the 'F.A.E.-Sonata' composed by R. Schumann A. Dietrich and J. Brahms-In October 1853 Robert Schumann invited Joseph Joachim to take part in a Concert at Dusseldorf. In order to celebrate the arrival of the famous young violinst his friends in Dusseldorf prepared a jocular surprise for him. They composed together a Sonata for Violin and Piano and Joachim has to guess the composer of each movement. Dietrich wrote the Allegro in A Minor Schumann the Intermezzo in F Brahms the Scherzo In C Minor (the work printed here) and Brahms completed the Sonata with the Finale in A Minor.

Written for Moray Welsh whilst still an undergraduate at York University. This piece was completed in mid-September. Inspired by Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf. A solo 'cello seemed an appropriate medium for music which might explore the character of Harry Haller with his desire for bourgeois comfort and his strong misanthropic and suicidal tendencies. The opening theme attempts to express this - melancholy nostalgic a bit Biedermeyer (cf. Brahms Intermezzi). The basic theme of the book at its simplest is that every human personality consists of hundred of different personalities - within every man there lurks a wolf. Accordingly the tendency of my piece is for allits musical material to become distorted either by thematic transformation or by changes of timbre. There are three movements played without a break. The first is a character portrait of the Steppenwolf. The second is concerned in the most general sort of way with the dance elements in the novel - Harry's being taught to dance and appreciate low 'popular' music - a tango is recapitulated in a waltz and 'Yearning' a popular song of the time (1927) is hinted at. The third movement concerns the Masked Ball and the Magic Theatre. Mozart is one of Hesse's great loves and he is repeatedly mentioned in the book. Inevitably some Mozart quotes have been worked in the most significant being a reference to The Magic Flute 'fire and water' flute theme in the middle of the second movement. Long before I finished the piece I was disenchanted with the work of Hesse. Much of Steppenwolf I now find rather embarrassing and the claims currently made for Hesse's greatness seem to me exaggerated. Since my piece is in no important sense programmatically specific this change of heart doesn't really matter.© David Blake

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