Violin and piano - difficult SKU: HL.49017922
Composed by John Casken. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. String. Score and parts. Composed 2006. 40 pages. Duration 16'. Schott Music #ED13084. Published by Schott Music (HL.49017922). ISBN 9790220127397. UPC: 884088567620. 9.0x12.0x0.125 inches.
These six short pieces might more readily be described as fantasies, each with its own sound-world but linked by shared material. The mood of each of these short movements is guided by an imaginary landscape, one shadowed by the blackened tree, a far-away song, shadows past, a quickening moon, forgotten voices, and by the harrowed land. The title of the last movement plays on the word harrow, something that is used to break up the soil, but also bringing with it suggestions of a land both pained and wounded.
