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Programme Notes

Three short pieces, all exploring different facets of the same compositional technique, and all written for friends. (1) “A Lullaby for Lalit”: a slow and simple melody, accompanied by open strings, which transforms into ribbons of harmonics at its end. (2) “A Canon for Sally”: a highly energetic fast movement, whose triadic harmonies and accentuated rhythms become ever more insistant. (3) “Lauer Lied”: a plucked chordal introduction leads to a gentle “arco” song, supported by lilting left-hand “pizzicati”. The world première of these “Three Miniatures” was given at the Römerbad Festival by Irvine Arditti in March 2002, who also gave the first performance of the definitive (expanded) version later the same year at the Aldeburgh Festival.

© George Benjamin

Three Miniatures for Solo Violin

French premiere of Visiones

Auditorium Jean-Pierre Dautel (Caen, France)

Jasmine Eudeline/Stéphane André/Marie-Pascale Talbot

Three Miniatures for Solo Violin

Cathédrale (Nîmes, France)

Isabelle Faust/Carole Roth/Laurent Camatte/Aude Périn-Dureau/Amaryllis Jarczyk/Hugo Abraham/Gionata Sgambaro/Joël Soichez/Guillaume Le Picard

Three Miniatures for Solo Violin

Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan, Italy)

Lorenzo Gorli

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Three Miniatures for Solo Violin

Konzerthaus (Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)

Isabelle Faust

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Three Miniatures for Solo Violin

Conservatorio di Musica 'G. Verdi' di Milano (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)

Maurizio Zaccaria/Francesco D’Orazio