Crossings
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 2011
- Duration
- 15'
- Publisher
- Canadian Music Centre (unpublished; printed by CMC)
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About this piece
Crossings is a four-movement sonata for cello and piano, about fifteen minutes long. It was commissioned by cellist Rachel Mercer and pianist Angela Park (the Mercer-Park Duo) with Ontario Arts Council funding. They premiered it on 8 November 2011 at Heliconian Hall, Toronto, for Les AMIS Concerts, and recorded it on Naxos's Sounds of Our Time: Music for Cello & Piano (2014). The punchy opening movement is driven by repeated staccato notes. In the second movement the pianist plays inside the instrument with a ping-pong ball and plucked strings, and the cellist imitates the bouncing ball in free time with ponticello and noise effects. The later movements use shifting irregular metres such as 4/16 and 7/16.
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