Piano Accompaniment;
Violin (Violin/Piano)
SKU: HL.48025035
Violin and Piano.
Composed by Brett Dean.
Boosey & Hawkes Chamber
Music. Classical.
Softcover. 52 pages.
Duration 1020 seconds.
Bote & Bock #M202535639.
Published by Bote & Bock
(HL.48025035).
ISBN
9783793142607. UPC:
196288020790.
9.0x12.0x0.171
inches.
With Berlin
Music, Brett Dean wrote a
threefold homage: to the
classical duo consisting
of violin and piano; to
the violin virtuoso
Midori, for whom the
piece was written; and to
the city of Berlin, where
he lived between the
mid-1980s and 2000 and
whose rich cultural life
he owes much to his
development as a musician
and composer. The first
four, relatively short
movements of the
five-movement work form a
suite of character
pieces, which is followed
by a longer final
movement. In summary,
this turns out to be the
actual main movement from
which all motifs and
harmonies emerged in a
compositional manner.
This includes tuning down
the G side by a whole
tone - an apparently
small difference, but one
that has a major effect
on the timbre and
resonance of the
instrumentand suddenly
makes previously
impossible interval
sequences playable. In
addition, the violin in
the third movement (a
moto perpetuo in which
Dean bows to Ravel's
violin sonata) has to
play with a practice
damper, while the pianist
changes the instrument
and plays on a standing
piano that is dampened by
a pedal and placed next
to the concert grand
Expressing nervous energy
in tight college
spaces.