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Sculthorpe, Irkanda I for Violin Alone(Faber)
Sculthorpe, Irkanda I for Violin Alone(Faber) 'Irkanda' is an Australian Aboriginal word meaning a remote and lonely place, and this work is the first of a series of four pieces bearing this title. Irkanda I is in one movement, and in it, long, melodic lines and bird-sounds are contrasted with brittle, rhythmic sections. The opening melody follows three hundred and sixty degree contour of the hills around Canberra, where most of the work was written. It might be added that my use of bird-song stems from suggestions in the writing of the Australian composer and music critic, Henry Tate (1873 - 1926). Peter Sculthorpe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG94QSJfltc
Nigun (Improvisation) from Baal Shem for Violin by Ernest Bloch, published by Carl Fischer, is a profoundly expressive solo that transforms the violin into a voice of prayer and longing.
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• A landmark work of 20th-century violin repertoire
A distinguished Dover volume pairing the Violin Sonata in A major by César Franck and Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 13 by Gabriel Fauré. Reproduced from authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel editions, this collection brings together two cornerstone works of the French Romantic repertoire.
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