Solo piano (Solo)
SKU:
OU.9780193722507
Composed by Michael
Berkeley. Piano (Solo).
12 pages. Duration 9'.
Oxford University Press
#9780193722507. Published
by Oxford University
Press (OU.9780193722507).
ISBN 9780193722507. 12
x 8 inches.
This
evocative solo piano
piece looks back, as
though in some troubled
dream, to fragments of
Purcell and Tippett. The
widely spaced opening
notes are interrupted,
after only eight bars, by
a quick and relentlessly
turbulent passage. A
brief reference to the
opening of Tippett's
Fourth Symphony leads
into a slower, more
expressive section; a
predominantly mysterious,
even glassy sound world
from which emerges the
poignant notes of Dido's
Lament from Purcell's
Dido and Aeneas, now at
last momentarily in its
correct juxtaposition.
Finally, a tiny fragment
of the music is spun
obsessively until it
falls out of control and
back into the carefully
placed notes of the
opening.
Dido's Lament - Viola from Dido and Aeneas - Instrumental Solo
