Audio Sample
Performance by Ian Munro, Belinda Webster from the CD Mere bagatelles
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CD
Complete music for solo piano / David Lumsdaine ; Mark Knoop, piano.
Library shelf no. CD 1949 [Available for loan]
Score
Six postcard pieces : for solo piano / David Lumsdaine
Library shelf no. 786.2/LUM 2 [Available for loan]
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Work Overview
For me, there are few more extraordinary pieces of music than Beethoven's last set of Bagatelles: resonance, wit, compassion, and an extraordinary sense of irony - and imagery that goes straight to the point. (It takes a most extraordinary musician to play them, too). It has been a lifelong ambition of this composer to create resonance, rather than more crotchets, and these postcard pieces are essays on the way to that goal.
There is also this reward for the listener - you don't have to be told how to listen to these pieces. By the time you've read the programme note, they're finished…
— David Lumsdaine
Work Details
Year: 1994
Instrumentation: Piano.
Duration: 5 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Contents note: Ouverture -- March -- Rhapsody -- Nocturne -- Sonata -- Toccata.
Dedication note: To Tony Gilbert with affection and admiration.
Commission note: Commissioned by Tall Poppies for performance by Ian Munro.
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