Chamber Music Violin
SKU: PR.114418540
For solo violin.
Composed by James
Matheson. -. Premiere:
Jennifer Koh, violin.
Contemporary. Solo part.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2015. 4 pages.
Duration 2 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41854. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114418540).
ISBN
9781491109779. UPC:
680160642052. 9x12
inches.
James
Matheson's CAPRICCIO was
composed for Jennifer Koh
who premiered it as part
of the 2016 NY
Philharmonic Biennial.
Playing against the
expectations of
flamboyant violin
caprices, Matheson's work
is dramatically, even
eerily quiet throughout
its entirety and inspired
by the arpeggiated
preludes from Bach's
suites. As in the Bach
preludes, Matheson's
study in
motivically-phrased 16th
notes has no marked
tempo, offering
performers a vastly broad
spectrum to express this
quiet exploration. For
advanced violinists.