Program note
Four short pieces for two cellos, transcribed from THREE ENGLISH SONGS. Movements 1 (Playing), 2 (Offering), and 4 (Dancing) are therefore respectively inspired by poems of Fernando Pessoa, Rabindranath Tagore, and William Butler Yeats. Movement 3 (Meditating) is a non-programmatic addition and mostly consists of an inverted canon.
Playing is rather slow and melancholic, reflecting the mood of the original Pessoa poem. See Inspirations. Offering is about devotion and enthusiasm, while Meditating, as its title would suggest, is more intimate, intense, and even dark. Dancing is alternately elated and filled with longing, as Yeat's original text (To a Child dancing in the Wind) suggests.
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Details
Instrumentation
Two cellos
Duration
18'
Date
2024
Commissioned by
Commissioned by Ariane Lallemand and Anouk Legée
Sheet music
Available upon request
First performance
Awaiting premiere