Møte - for solo violin - 2010
duration 5 minutes
"... a little gem" [Henning Kraggerud]
Møte (Meeting) was commissioned by the Vestfold Festival in Norway, for Henning Kraggerud. It is one of fifteen movements composed by invited composers and accompanied an exhibition of paintings by Edvard Munch in June 2010. My painting from 1921 was assigned by the festival, but from my point of view most happily so since related Munch works had already provided three score covers. Its themes of separation, self-exploration, rejection and passion, all frozen in a still moment, resonated; as does Munch's rather iconographic, symbolic, and oft-re-explored approach to his material.
The Munch Suite was performed five times at the Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum and broadcast on NRK (Norwegian Radio Klassisk). My movement was singled out in a review of the subsequently released CD by Andy Gill of The Independent. The other movements in the set that I admired were penned by Ståle Kleiberg, Marcus Paus, and Fabian Müller, all now friends.
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A wonderful performance by Rebecca Raimondi from Sala Casella at Filarmonica Romana 2019
Two lovely performances by Litsa Tunnah who has very much taken this work to her heart.
(Phone quality videos from Julian Ashley - my thanks as I could not attend either performance.)
This work is included on the CD Diversity in Unity by Liza Fediukova which you can hear (free) here on Sheva Collection label (via Naxos - opens in YouTube
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