The Lake and the Hinterland
for alto saxophone and piano
(1999)
duration: 5’
GRT • 075
CD available
Hinterland
Romp Duo: Barry Cockcroft (alto saxophone), Adam Pinto
(piano)
Reed Music
audio sample
score
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Reed Music
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 alto
saxophone and piano.