Piano Duet SKU: HL.14018852 Composed by Kenneth Leighton. Music Sales Ame...(+)
Piano Duet
SKU:
HL.14018852
Composed
by Kenneth Leighton.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Music Sales
#NOV100349. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14018852).
ISBN
9780853609308.
Pian
o duet score. 1st
performance Ellesmere
College, January 1986 by
Richard Markham and David
Nettle. Duration c.24
minutes. The work is in
three movements and the
musical thought is
symphonic. The first
movement (based entirely
on the opening motive)
goes through a series of
paragraphs which
eventually culminate in
an extended melodic line
played entirely by the
treble player. The middle
movement is a playful
Scherzo with a rather
sardonic waltz for its
Trio. The slow movement
(which comes last) is
much more relaxed and
concentrates on a D major
motive with sharpened
fourths, but the more
intense moods of the
first movement return in
a suddenly impassioned
middle section.