Piano
SKU:
HL.14020312
Composed
by Stuart MacRae. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Book
[Softcover]. Music Sales
#NOV951511. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14020312).
ISBN
9781844492619.
9.75x13.75x0.113
inches.
Stuart
MacRae's Piano Sonata was
commissioned by the City
Music Society and first
performed by Philip Fowke
at a City Music Society
lunchtime concert on 27
October 1998. The
composer writes: 'By the
time I started writing
the Piano Sonata in 1998
I had been thinking for a
while about the
possibilities of making
works out of two separate
parts which would balance
one another. In order for
this to be effective the
two parts would have to
be more or less
self-sufficient, and have
their own internal
balance: in fact the
first movement has been
performed several times
as a piece in its own
right; the second
movement has its own
material until near the
end when a sort of coda
mixes the material from
the two movements (albeit
inconclusively).'.
Alan MacRae
