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Macmillan: Violin Concerto No. 2 Violin and Piano

Macmillan: Violin Concerto No. 2 Violin and Piano

MacMillan, James

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ISBN10: 183568081X
ISBN13: 9781835680810
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Inc
Published: Mar 1 2025
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.83 Depth: 11.82
Language: English
(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Composed in 2021 and dedicated to the soloist Nicola Benedetti, this work was written as a memorial tribute to the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, who died the previous year and was a major musical influence on the composer, particularly during his formative creative years. MacMillan writes, One of the co-commissioners for Violin Concerto no 2 was Polish and I was keen that there be some acknowledgment of the late Penderecki in some way in the new work. I was happy to oblige with a dedication to a composer I have greatly admired from an early age. He describes creating a new work for Nicola Benedetti: I've worked with Nicola on her recording of the Mendelssohn concerto and on tour with her on the Mozart G Major concerto, and have absorbed a lot from these experiences. I composed From Ayrshire for her some years ago which is a short piece that can be performed with either piano or small orchestral accompaniment. I also wrote a short work for her and some singers of The Sixteen for the very first Cumnock Tryst festival in 2014. All this has been important in the way I have built my relationship with Nicola, and in my approach for this concerto. Adopting a more compact format than MacMillan's first violin concerto from 2009, the second employs a medium-sized orchestra and plays continuously in a single through-composed movement of 25 minutes' duration.

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