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978-0-19-356897-6
22 May 1992
Price: Available on request
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for solo cello and chamber orchestra Forces or CategorySolo cello & chamber orchestraDuration18 minutesDifficultyModerately difficultOrchestrationvc solo, 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl (+bcl), 2 bn, 2 hn, 2 tpt, 3 perc (tbells, tamb), timp, pn, hp, strProgramme NotesThis is a single movement work. It is
intended as a memorial to Kenneth Leighton, distinguished composer, pianist and teacher, who was the Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University from 1970 until his death in 1988. There are three clearly defined sections. The first is dark and brooding and aims to express a sense of spiritual desolation and loss. The mood gradually becomes more animated and the music slowly becomes transformed into the middle-section - a toccata-like passage of the type often used by Leighton (though there is no attempt to imitate his style). Here the music is angry and violent. A quiet, contemplative final section follows, recapitulating but transforming much of the material of the first section.
© Edward Harper
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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Edward Harper (1941-2009) Edward Harper was born in Taunton, Somerset. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford and later with Gordon Jacob at the Royal College of Music, London.
For over forty years Edward Harper was on the staff of the Faculty of Music at Edinburgh University, where he was a Senior Lecturer. He was also Director of the New Music Group of Scotland which he founded in 1973, and he has been described as 'playing a crucial part in opening Scotland's ears to fresh musical experience'.
Edward Harper died on 12 April 2009.More on Edward Harper at the Scottish Music Centre
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"Harper has now discovered an earnest sincerity, a voice of passionate realism." - Raymond Monelle, The Independent
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