Icicles of Fire
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 2003
- Duration
- 24'
- Publisher
- Canadian Music Centre (unpublished; printed by CMC)
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About this piece
A two-movement duo for cello and piano, 'Icicles' and 'Fire', written in 2003 for cellist Shauna Rolston; the movements can be played separately (about 12 minutes each) or together without a break. In her program note the composer describes imagining icicles with small flames burning inside them, and says the title suited Iceland, which she visited with a Governor General's state visit while writing the piece. The slow first movement is built largely on muted harmonics and quiet tremolo, while the second is a driving Presto con fuoco. Rolston premiered the complete work in Calgary in January 2004 with the composer at the piano, and the pair recorded it on the Centrediscs album Icicles of Fire (2013).
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