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Brother is an intimate duet for violin and viola in four movements.
Throughout the piece the two instruments are very closely intertwined. Their colours fuse and coalesce. Together they weave patterns of sound, tracing lines that arc, overlap, dovetail and mirror one another, sometimes exchanging sounds, sometimes speaking as one voice.
The final movement was composed first, and was written in a single day while on a residency in Massachusetts in 2012. Three more movements were commissioned by London Contemporary Orchestra and premiered by Galya Bisengalieva and Robert Ames at the Roundhouse in London in 2015.
The piece is dedicated to my brothers. I look back on it now as a turning point in my approach to writing music.
© Edmund Finnis
Content
I Moderato, always very flexible
II Allegro, flowing
III Light of touch
IV Fast but not rushed, flowing, atmospheric
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Seiji Ozawa Hall
Alex Shiozaki, violin; Derek Mosloff, viola
June 13, 2015 · London (UK)
Roundhouse
Galya Bisengalieva, violin; Robert Ames, viola
Seiji Ozawa Hall
Alex Shiozaki, violin; Derek Mosloff, viola
June 13, 2015 · London (UK)
Roundhouse
Galya Bisengalieva, violin; Robert Ames, viola
Seiji Ozawa Hall
Alex Shiozaki, violin; Derek Mosloff, viola
June 13, 2015 · London (UK)
Roundhouse
Galya Bisengalieva, violin; Robert Ames, viola