Ledoit - Wandering the Threshold of Delirium for Solo Violin

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Ledoit - Wandering the Threshold of Delirium for Solo Violin
Prix:
16.62 USD
Instrument:
Violon
Subinstrumentation:
Unaccompanied Violin
Compositeur:
Ledroit, Christien
Éditeur:
Canadian Music Centre
RCM Grade:
LD
SKU:
LEDRO001

Wandering the Threshold of Delirium is a short two-movement work for solo violin and optional electronic accompaniment. The piece is based on two quotations melded together, one from Bach's Partita #2 for solo violin and one from R. Murray Schafer's violin concerto. The first movement, Wandering, presents the basic materials of the work and develops them in a very free, rhapsodic setting. This movement has a sometimes passionate, sometimes plaintive sound to it, never seeming to be able to come to rest. The second movement, The Threshold of Delirium, uses the same basic materials but at a much more rapid pace, with a constant driving 3+3+2+2 rhythm. Hints of baroque techniques are present here, but fleeting. This movement is constantly pushing itself, and often seems about to fly off the rails, until it's reeled in at the last second.

Wandering the Threshold of Delirium was commissioned through the Norman Burgess Memorial Fund. It was composed for student performers at an RCM grade 9-10 level