SKU: HL.48022529
UPC: 884088907648. 9.0x12.0x0.11 inches.
Inspired by 11 poems written by Irena Wachendorff. Includes the printed poetry text.
SKU: HL.48010807
UPC: 073999186437. 8.25x6 inches.
Contents: Sound for us • London's burning • Drummer's march • Fiddle and flute • Favourite round • Long, long ago • My dame hath a lame, tame crane • Tallis' canon • Summer song • Summer is a-coming in • Echo dance • Ave Maria • Idle cowboy • Three blind mice • Gavotte • I sing when I'm happy • The rose • Oh, how lovely is the evening • Rumba Time • A boat, a boat • Haste thee, nymph • The flower wondrous-fair • Come, follow • O my love • The four posted bed • Emperor Waltz • Little Brown Jug.
SKU: HL.48024561
ISBN 9781784543518. 0.078 inches.
This Sonata for Viola (unaccompanied) was written in 1999. The soloists C-string is tuned down a semitone for the entire piece, giving a duskier quality to the tone-colour, and setting up in the very first bar the characteristic melodic/harmonic shape that infiltrates all four movements. I - slowish and thoughtful - gradually expands this opening idea into cantilena and pattern, as prelude to II - Vivacissimo - played muted throughout, a tremolando tarantella, with contrasting section, chunky double-stops, alternating withsomething of a gigue. III - adagio - rhapsodic and quasi-improvisando, enclosing a simple self-contained melody, and linking into IV, where the gigue-like material from the scherzo provides the principal substance, expanding into an ardent cantabile, and calminginto the Coda not just the finale but, in its reminiscences of I, to the sonata as a whole.
