Oxford University Press Dumka - Clarke - Piano Trio (Violin/Viola/Piano) - Score/Parts

Author/Composer:

CLARKE, REBECCA

Instrumentation:

PIANO TRIO

Model #:

9780193867482

A duo concertante for violin, viola and piano

Composer: Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
Format: Score and Parts
Instrumentation: Piano Trio (Violin, Viola, Piano)
Dumka
Level: Moderately Difficult

This work was written around 1940, placing it near the beginning of a series of Clarke's late compositions. It both looks forward to her lean, linear, avowedly modern conceptions and backwards to works which are explicit homages to ancient styles, forms, and composers. A strain from the gypsy-rondo of Brahms's Piano Quartet Op. 25 echoes throughout the opening pages and is heard again in the piece's remarkable conclusion.