Miniature Woodcut (Concert Solo for Piano)
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Instrumentation
Piano
1
Additional Information
Miniature Woodcut for piano (op 25) was the composer’s musical response to the novel ‘Under the Volcano’ by Malcolm Lowry. Rather than an attempt to write a programme piece, the composer chose to recreate something of the surrealistic atmosphere prevailing on the day the ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin died. Not surprisingly, as in the novel, colour is major factor. ‘The sky was blue again overhead as they went down into Tomalín: dark clouds still gathered behind Popocatepetl, their purple masses shot through with the bright late sunlight, that fell too on another little silver lake glittering cool, fresh, and inviting before them’.
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Publisher
Accolade Musikverlad
Manchester
United Kingdom
Score file
Minutes
5
Recordings
Date published
2005
Date recorded
2013
Performers
Jeremy So
Recording format id
1
Record company
RNCM
Venue
Martin Harris Centre for Music Drama, University of Manchester
Date published
2005
Date recorded
2015
Performers
Kathleen Tagg
Recording format id
1
Record company
New Music South Africa Indaba 2015
Venue
Odeion School of Music, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein