Summer Beckons [single]
by Sally Greenaway, Barbara Jane Gilby
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Summer Beckons [single]
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'Summer Beckons' is a pastoral vignette for violin and piano by Australian composer Sally Greenaway. The piece captures the seasonal anticipation described in Martina Hoffmann’s poem 'My Love Is A House':
“In Summer the walls are covered
with blossoms and buds
and tendrils reaching”
Featuring virtuoso violinist Barbara Jane Gilby, accompanied by Sally Greenaway at the piano, the music shimmers, expands in vivid wonder, evoking plants springing forth, tendrils reaching and leaves delicately unfurling towards the sun.
“Barbara Jane Gilby’s expressive violin playing brings a particular beauty to the piece” says Sally. “Especially the middle section, where the violin bow ricochet's effervescently across the strings. It’s very atmospheric.”
Greenaway was invited to be part of a multi-composer commissioning project spearheaded by fellow composer Thea Zimple. Each composer responded to a stanza from Hoffmann’s poem, with the resulting pieces combining as a song cycle woven together with the poetry.
(The original scoring of this work was for flute and piano, but Greenaway re-worked the music specially for Barbara Jane Gilby and her exquisite 17th century violin made by the Guarneri family.)
“In Summer the walls are covered
with blossoms and buds
and tendrils reaching”
Featuring virtuoso violinist Barbara Jane Gilby, accompanied by Sally Greenaway at the piano, the music shimmers, expands in vivid wonder, evoking plants springing forth, tendrils reaching and leaves delicately unfurling towards the sun.
“Barbara Jane Gilby’s expressive violin playing brings a particular beauty to the piece” says Sally. “Especially the middle section, where the violin bow ricochet's effervescently across the strings. It’s very atmospheric.”
Greenaway was invited to be part of a multi-composer commissioning project spearheaded by fellow composer Thea Zimple. Each composer responded to a stanza from Hoffmann’s poem, with the resulting pieces combining as a song cycle woven together with the poetry.
(The original scoring of this work was for flute and piano, but Greenaway re-worked the music specially for Barbara Jane Gilby and her exquisite 17th century violin made by the Guarneri family.)
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released October 14, 2022
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Instrumentation & Performers:
Barbara Jane Gilby - violin
Sally Greenaway - composer, pianist
The violin featured on this recording is a 17th century Guarneri.
The piano featured on this recording is a Shigeru Kawai SK5.
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Sally Greenaway - composer, producer
Duncan Lowe - recording engineer
Kimmo Vennonen - mastering engineer
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Instrumentation & Performers:
Barbara Jane Gilby - violin
Sally Greenaway - composer, pianist
The violin featured on this recording is a 17th century Guarneri.
The piano featured on this recording is a Shigeru Kawai SK5.
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Sally Greenaway - composer, producer
Duncan Lowe - recording engineer
Kimmo Vennonen - mastering engineer
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Sally Greenaway Canberra, Australia
A leading composer of her generation, Sally Greenaway's music delights audiences and musicians alike. Her music expresses
our most intimate to grandiose experiences of our world, with a strong focus on nature, Australian landscape and the beauty in humanity.
Her music spans a wide assortment of styles and genres, including classical, jazz and soundtracks for screen.
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