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Sonata for Viola and Double Bass
RSN:
66940
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Composition Date:
2010
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:14:00
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Cataloguing Information
Call Number
MI 3126 R616so
Genre
Strings (bowed), Solo / Ensemble, Misc. String Duos (Mixed)
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2012-10-31
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
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Physical Description
Found 2 record(s)
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Extent of Item
2 parts (13 p.) ;
1 score (30 p.) ;
Instrumentation
Found 2 record(s)
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Set No.
Category
Instrument
Number
43289
Strings, bowed
Viola
1
43289
Strings, bowed
Double bass
1
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Premiere
20/02/2011 Kilburn Institute Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Jo St Leon (viola) Stuart Thompson (double bass)
This piece was borne of the Internet age. From the other side of the planet, the Elanée Ensemble of Australia stumbled upon my website, and after listening to some of my work, invited me to compose a sonata for viola and double bass. I initially viewed the prospect of writing for this unusual combination with a degree of skepticism. But after hearing the duo’s rendition of Glière's "Cradle Song", I was immediately won over by the dark, blended sonorities that projected a unique warmth tinged with melancholy. The contrapuntal clarity of their version of a Telemann canonic sonata sealed the deal: I became convinced that this little-explored pairing was capable of a wide range of expression, from the lyrical to the virtuosic. And so I fashioned an extended work whose four contrasting movements exploit a considerable amount of the duo’s range, from brash to doleful to lyrical and, finally, to chipper. The disposition of the movements, with fast outer movements enclosing two slow ones, is, if not without precedent, certainly not the sonata norm. Nor is ending with a scherzo. Yet to my ears there is a narrative logic to the unfolding. As an antidote to the furious—and often violent—opening movement, with its swirling, interlocking parts, comes a sparse lament that seems to reckon with the pain inflicted. Here the viola resonates in its sonorous, low register against the bass's ethereal harmonics. The wounds now healing, warmth emerges in the lush third movement: the bass rises up from its depths to cantabile heights against elaborate figuration in the viola. The stage is now set for a bit of humour in the last movement, a playful romp, enlivened by frequent alternation between pizzicato and arco, whose only recollection of the first movement's fury is in its mischievous tone. —R.R. Commissioned by: Elanée Ensemble
Found 12 record(s)
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Calgary
03CA66940
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1
Vancouver
03VA66940
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1
Montréal
03MO66940
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1
Calgary
02CA66940
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1
Toronto
03TO66940
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1
Vancouver
01VA66940
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1
Montréal
02MO66940
In Circulation
-
1
Toronto
01TO66940
In Circulation
Available for Loan
1
Calgary
01CA66940
In Circulation
-
1
Montréal
01MO66940
In Circulation
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1
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