Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 1949
- Duration
- 15'
- Publisher
- American Composers Alliance (American Composers Edition)
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About this piece
Borroff's first cello sonata, in E-flat, is a work of about 15 minutes for cello and piano dated 1949; the American Composers Alliance gives its first performance as Chicago, 1951. The language is broadly tonal and lyrical: the opening Moderato con moto in 3/8 sets a singing cello line over rippling piano arpeggios, and a later section moves from an Adagio quasi recitativo into an Allegretto grazioso and a pizzicato Poco vivace. Her second sonata (1993) was written to mark this one's fiftieth anniversary.
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