2 Pieces

The presentation of this new edition is good. The notes are clear and the only page turn, in 'Grotesque', is carefully planned to coincide with the only bar of rest in the music. There is a full page of notes on the history of the work with credit to Paul Coletti for his contributions to the preparation of the edition.

Autorentext
Rebecca Clarke was born in Harrow in 1886 and died in New York City in 1979. She was one of the finest viola players of her day and a skilful composer who studied with Stanford at the Royal College of Music in London. Her output as a composer was small, comprising about 90 works, but all these pieces are brilliant and powerful. Her Piano Trio and Viola Sonata are often played and recorded, and are now widely regarded as masterpieces. However her songs are perhaps her finest body of works, and embrace a variety of styles from Blakean simplicity to brutal tragedy and outright farce. Rebecca Clarke's choral music was virtually unknown until Oxford University Press began to publish these works for the first time. She wrote for chorus and other vocal ensembles throughout virtually her whole career, from her earliest attempts at composition around 1906 to her final flowering in the 1940s, revising and recomposing until as late as 1976.

Klappentext

for viola (or violin) and celloClarke's duo is in two contrasted movements and was originally written as a concert piece for the composer to play with the English cellist May Mukle.

Zusammenfassung
for viola (or violin) and cello Clarke's duo is in two contrasted movements and was originally written as a concert piece for the composer to play with the English cellist May Mukle.