
![]() Fantasy Pieces First Edition flute, violin, viola, violoncello Catalogue Number: HV055 Skill level (A-E): E Examples: Thanks to the Arcadian Ensemble for these recordings. Composed in 1988 these three movements draw heavily on ideas from my student days in
the late sixties. In Pastoral Scene the flute has a simple "folk-like" melody in the Lydian mode with a
characteristic sharpened fourth degree of the scale. Although the central section is more agitated the
general mood is peaceful. Lamentation is my response to the untimely death of my father. The anger expressed in
the opening bars soon gives way to a long and expressive melody on the violin. The ensuing emotional
"roller-coaster" is, eventually, calmed as a mood of acceptance pervades the closing bars. "By contrast, the Rondo Variations opens with a "sunny" theme on the
flute which re-appears throughout the movement. The first variation has an almost military character and
the journey that follows is often turbulent with many twists and turns and occasional high spirits. All
is left unresolved until the whole ensemble play an emphatic C minor final chord."John Frith |
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