Evocation
for solo piano
(2006)
duration: 8’
GRT • 121
CD available
Veiled
Virtuosity
Amir
Farid, piano
Move Records
audio sample
score available from
Australian Music
Centre
program note
This piece was
commissioned to commemorate the life of Daniel McCluskey,
who died suddenly in January of 2006. He was an
accomplished law and music student at the University of
Melbourne and an orchestration student of mine in 2004 – a
subject for which he received first class honours. In that
same year he included ‘Evocation’ (from Albéniz’ cycle,
Iberia) in his solo piano program and that piece provided a
loose starting point for this one, with the idea that
Daniel might have his own ‘Evocation’.
review
“The interleaving
pieces give this expert young artist more space to stretch
his interpretative wings in a delicate review of Liszt's
mildly virtuosic third Consolation, matched by Stuart
Greenbaum's elegiac Evocation, which Farid premiered four years
ago."
Clive O’Connell, The Age, April 2010