MacDonald - Violin Sonata No. 2 "The Phoenix"

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Prix:

91.00 CAD

Instrument:

Violon

Subinstrumentation:

Violin & Keyboard

Compositeur:

MacDonald, Andrew P.

Éditeur:

Canadian Music Centre

RCM Grade:

SKU:

MACDO011

From ancient Egypt, through Herodotos, Milton to the present day, the phoenix has been a symbol of rebirth. In my composition I set out to explore that idea as applied to a theme which is constantly changing, but always recognizable. Although the opening fantasy, built on successive variations on the violin's initial solo phrase, is seemingly free in form, it is actually a tightly-knit construction of a simple handful of motives, where the principal theme repeatedly disappears and returns in a renewed guise. Constrasting with the fluid, fioratura-type gestures of the opening movement, the following adagio is a simple cantalina based on the second principal theme of the work, a four-note motive of interlocking thirds first stated and explored in the opening movement. The adagio gains momentum and power and finally blazes directly into the presto finale. Here there is a new rhythmic twist on that same four-note theme, and a gradual expansion of the work's primary theme, the angular melody from the work's opening which now, transformed and radiant, rises to dizzying new heights--as the phoenix returns and soars from the ashes. Andrew Paul MacDonald (from the score)