The Lake and the Hinterland
for cello and piano
(1999)
duration: 5’
GRT • 063
audio sample
score
available from
Australian Music
Centre
program note
Stay close
now as winter's
White fuse burns across
The lake and the hinterland
(excerpt from Late
Autumn Lullaby by
Ross Baglin)
A hinterland is a district behind a coast,
or river's banks with the suggestion of sparse population.
The full text to Baglin's poem is one I had already set for
voice, and the resonance of that setting continues in this
piece for cello and piano.
review
“Stuart Greenbaum’s The Lake and the
Hinterland for
piano and cello saw the cello at its most eloquent, with
expansive melodies and rich harmonies reminiscent of the
late romantic composers.”
The Border Mail, September, 2002