Occasional Pieces
for violin and piano
(2006)
duration: 20’
GRT • 122
audio sample
2: Life Cycles
score
available from
Australian Music
Centre
program note
These short
pieces were written for various occasions – births,
birthdays, deaths and marriages. They were conceived
independently (as the occasions arose) and are collected
here due to their common instrumentation. The pieces are
either solos or duos for violin and piano as a consequence
of my wife, Marianne Rothschild, being a violinist and the
piano being an instrument I make occasional use of myself.
There are other occasional works for piano solo that are
published separately including Evocation, Portrait and Blues
Hymn,
Lavender for
Hanna,
For
Oliver,
Bagatelle for
Aksel, and
Spirals
– the latter three found
in Four
Thoughts, for solo
piano.
This collection ideally runs in the order
published, though any individual piece or subset of pieces
may be played in their own right if desired.
1: How to be in the
World
2: Life Cycles
3: For Alette
4: The 4th Saturday in
April
5: Curves on the Great Ocean
Road
6: The Lake and the
Hinterland