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Graham Hair: Étude-variations Under Alderbaran for piano [Printed Music]
£19.99
In stock
Catalogue Number
NMP1271
For Solo Piano
16-page A4 saddle-stitched Score
Duration: c.4½ mins
ISMN No: 979-0-708219-21-7
Étude-variations: Under Aldebaran is also a Concert Study, based on the poem by Australian poet James McAuley, but is very different from the collection of the ‘Transcendental’ 12. It’s the only atonal piece in this album, and by far the most complicated in its detail, and was written many years earlier. It consists of an introduction (wherein 8 fragmentary figures are laid out by a handful of notes), followed by 8 variations on each figure in turn (in 3 different tempi), concluding with a ‘whispering’ coda in the piano's high register.
I met the great pianist Martin Jones as a consequence of writing the Concert Study Wild Cherries and Honeycomb as a test-piece for the Scottish International Piano Competition, circa 1998. Martin heard about this piece from the chairman of the competition jury, Bryce Morrison, and this eventually led to my writing more Concert Studies over the next fifteen years. © Graham Hair
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