Rolling Hills & Jagged Ridges

• Prix: 27.01 USD

• Instrument: Violon
• Sous-catégorie: Violon & Piano
• Compositeur: Wolfgang, Gernot
• Publisher Code: 33 203
• # Produit: WOLFG004

for violin and piano

Rolling Hills and Jagged Ridges for Violin and Piano is a composition in one movement of approximately twelve minutes in length.
The inspiration for the piece is an imaginary landscape - rolling green hills with the occasional stand of trees, enveloped in fog...then the fog lifts and for an instance a rugged mountain range can be seen before it disappears again in the mist. Think Sierra Nevada in Vermont...
The composition starts out with the flowing, somewhat folksy "Hills" theme played by the violin...the piano joins in the development of this theme...subsequently a more percussive one note motive enters, building up to the jarring, dissonantly chordal "Ridges" material. From there on, the piece moves through a series of interconnected musical segments, all based on these two main themes...they can be found - either literally or in variations thereof - throughout the piece, either as the melody, a rhythmic component or the bass line. Even in the Bach-inspired violin cadenza the top line of the arpeggios closely follows the pitches of the "Hills" theme. After an energetic ensemble unison climax the piece briefly calms down to an airy section built on violin harmonics and a piano ostinato before making its final forceful statement.