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Take down the fiddle, Karl : for baritone voice and piano
by Fred Hill (2004, this version: 2018)
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Take down the fiddle, Karl : for baritone voice and piano / composer: Freddie Hill ; words by John Shaw Neilson.
Library shelf no. 783.88542/HIL 1 [Available for loan]
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Work Overview
Although this is a short work, I have aimed to evoke 3 distinct genres; the German Landler of the main melody depicts the relaxed after-hours mood of the workmen; the mechanical chatter of the strings reflects the tempo of the brutal labour; and the mysteries of the dark and spirit-haunted forests of Karl's faraway homeland. The references to Mendelssohn and Wagner are not accidental and perhaps mirror the impudence, irreverence - chutzpah - of the composer!
Work Details
Year: 2004, this version: 2018
Instrumentation: Baritone, piano.
Setting of a poem written around the time of World War I.
Performances of this work
17 Jul 2011: at Eastwood Sunday Afternoon Concert no.3 (Haseler Centre, St.Kevin's Catholic Church). Featuring Bruce Ledden.
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