descripção
Composed 2015. One of a series of fourteen accompaniments to texts published between 1886-1899
Duration 2:10 approx.
For recorder quartet - sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor - and narrator
Text: 'The Piano-Organ' by Amy Levy (1861 - 1889)
The piece may be performed without narrator.
Programme note:
Amy Levy was a British essayist, poet, and novelist. 'The 'Piano-Organ' was included in her
poetry collection 'A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse’ published in 1889, the year of her
death. The accompaniment is an distorted version of part of 'An Der Elbe' by Johann Strauss II - published in 1898 one year before his death.