Ballad
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 2005
- Duration
- 45'
- Publisher
- Canadian Music Centre (unpublished; printed by CMC)
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About this piece
A single, unbroken 45-minute piece for cello and piano, written in 2005 for pianist Eve Egoyan and cellist Andrew Smith, who premiered it in Toronto and recorded it live at the Glenn Gould Studio (released on World Edition). Smith says she wanted a work that could fill an entire concert; her note describes the two players as co-travellers or dance partners, with the music by turns a shared song, a landscape, a monologue and a fine line traced together. The writing is quiet and spare: the score asks the cellist for minimal vibrato throughout, and the piano begins as a soft 'shadow' of the cello line. A second recording by Anton Lukoszevieze and Kerry Yong appeared on Another Timbre in 2021.
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