Piano
SKU: ST.H438
Composed by Rhian Samuel.
Winding Paths; Interlude
I; Distant Fountains;
Interlude II; Weeping
Trellises.. Score.
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
#H438. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.H438).
ISBN
9790220219054.
Rhia
n Samuel is a co-editor
of the Grove
Dictionary of Women
Composers and
herself a composer of
highly acclaimed
instrumental and vocal
works, including
Daughter's
Letters, premiered
in 1996 by Sinfonia 21.
She wrote
Dream-Images in
memory of her teacher,
Andrew Byrne. Two
interludes separate the
three 'images', each of
which is rhapsodic in
mood. The last,
Weeping
Trellises, refers to
the gentle, drooping
blooms of the wisteria
plant, and, emotionally,
to feelings of
inevitability and loss.
Dream-Images was
first performed by Martin
Roscoe at the Machynlleth
Festival in August
1997.