Elegy for Strings

Arrangement for string orchestra of the Elegy from Six Pieces for piano solo.

Audio Samples

Listen to the Windsor Symphony Orchestra premiere conducted by John Morris Russell at CBC Concerts on Demand.

Program Notes

A slow, dark work with stark contrapuntal lines woven into a web of extensive string divisi, the plaintive Elegy for Strings invites comparison to Samuel Barber's famous Adagio for Strings. The tone here, however, though not without some glimmers of light, is notably bleaker. It shares some of the intensity of Barber's work but if it speaks of calm at all, it is an uneasy one. Arranged by the composer for the strings of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Elegy was originally written for solo piano, the third piece in the set Six Pieces (2007).

Performances

• Mar 5, 2010—CBC Radio 2 broadcast on "The Signal" (Laurie Brown)
• Feb 5, 2010—Windsor Symphony Orchestra, cond. John Morris Russell
  Armouries (Windsor, ON)

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