Knussen, Oliver: Reflection / Faber Music

Setting: Violin and Piano

Length: 32 pages

Publisher: Faber Music

Item number: 0571520561

ISMN: 9780571520565 / 978-0571520565

Hangszer/letét: Hegedű és zongora

Terjedelem: 32 oldal

Kiadó: Faber Music

Katalógusszám: 0571520561

This enchanting 8-minute piece for violin and piano - Oliver Knussen's penultimate work - is made up of various kinds of musical reflection: melody reflected in its inversion, a six-note mode reflected in its complement, and the relationships between the three main parts of the piece, which are in a way varied reflections of each other. There are some reflections in water, too, the work's opus number (31a) demonstrating a relationship to Knussen's unfinished Cleveland Pictures: ‚The main melody began as a response to Gauguin's painting of a Breton woman swimming', Knussen wrote, ‚and there is also, perhaps, an echo of the lonely underwater world of an ondine, eventually breaking the surface at the end of the piece.'