Dawn’s Dove For Solo Recorder

£8.99

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SKU: MUSNOV950327

Category: Recorder

Tags: Novello and Co

Description

Dawn’s Dove for solo recorder was composed in 1994. It was first performed by John Turner, who commissioned it, at a concert in honour of the sixtieth birthday of the composer Anthony Gilbert, to whom the piece is dedicated.

Itis not a literal birdsong, but I hope it captures the spirit of jubilant dawn chorus – as well as the softer sounds of a dove, which does not get up as early as other birds! I wrote it while I was writing my opera ‘The Wildman’and the epilogue of that opera is introduced by a piccolo solo which is very like Dawn’s Dove – they share material. In the opera, it signifies early morning.

Part way through Dawn’s Dove, the tempo becomes steadier andIquote from a beautiful work of Anthony Gilbert, his ‘Towards Asavari’, for piano and ensemble. At the end of that work, there is a trumpet solo which outlines the Indian raga on which the piece is based. My quote alludes tothat.

The unfolding melodic line of Dawn’s Dove is sometimes inflected by microtones; the piece lasts between two and three minutes.