Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 1993
- Duration
- 16'
- Publisher
- American Composers Alliance (American Composers Edition)
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About this piece
Borroff wrote her second cello sonata in 1993 at the request of cellist David Tomatz, director of the University of Houston School of Music, and the American Composers Alliance lists its first performance at the university in 1995. In her preface she explains that the opening notes F–C spell 'Au' (Fa–Ut), the symbol for gold, as a soggetto cavato marking the fiftieth anniversary of her first cello sonata. She calls the idiom 'diatonic atonality'. The four movements of this 16-minute work trace one emotional arc: an arch-form opening that moves from sadness to energy, a simple, soulful melody, a fast and fierce movement that is largely a cello solo which the piano gradually calms, and an exuberant finale she likens to bells ringing.
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