Violin
SKU:
HL.49047398
Solo
Violin. Composed by
Dominique Le Gendre.
String Solo. Classical.
Softcover. 8 pages.
Duration 300 seconds.
Schott Music #ED14165.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49047398).
ISBN
9798350127898. UPC:
842819121244.
9.0x12.0x0.061
inches.
This work
for solo violin was
commissioned by American
Violinist Wendy Case for
her CD of works for solo
violin by living
composers titled The
Tiger and The Clover
released in February 2022
by the label Blue
Griffin. Just as Wendy
proposed this new work, I
heard the news that the
Polish poet Adam
Zagajewski who I had met
through mutual friends,
had died. I had long
admired his essays that
thoughtfully and with
grace and ease, merged
the past with the present
in the way that only a
poet can, lifting the
reader onto a plain of
images, thoughts and
words that conjure
seamless journeys through
time, space and the
imagination. His essays
often refer to the music
of Bach and I found
myself writing this piece
inhabited by the physical
pleasure of playing
Bach's suites for Lute
transposed for the
guitar. The piece
revolves around a simple
repetitive semiquaver
motif playing with the
Aeolian mode starting on
G. The motif ascends and
descends playing with and
against the low G string
to extend itself away
from the home mode, then
returning and gradually
extending into quavers to
reach the key of E major
while hinting at A minor.
The repetitive nature of
the piece invites the
player to explore
variations in sound
quality and dynamics and
to enjoy the effect of
the notes playing against
each other as they rise
and fall away but always
maintain a constant tempo
and rhythm.
