Classical Composer: | Maxwell Davies, Peter |
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Work: | The Two Fiddlers: Dances (arr. V. Ceccanti for cello and piano) |
Year Composed: | 1978 |
Instrumentation: | vc, pf |
Publisher: | Boosey & Hawkes |
Duration: | 00:07:00 |
Period: | Contemporary |
Work Category: | Chamber Music |
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The Dances from 'The Two Fidders' is a transcription of a piece for violin and piano, first performed by György Pauk with Peter Frankl in Stromness on 19 June 1988, which is itself derived from the children's opera of that name. The sequence gets underway with vigorous and dance-like music for cello, soon joined by piano whose restrained yet fleet accompaniment underpins the musical motion as it proceeds to a more lilting passage which is briefly interrupted by a livelier idea, before the piano has the main theme against brusque passagework from cello. This leads to a vamping idea for both instruments that, in turn, makes way for a folk-like theme which takes the music through to its vigorous close.
Writer: Richard Whitehouse
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