Whira
Violin Solo - Sheet Music

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Instruments
Violin Solo
Publishers
Promethean Editions
Formats
Performance Score
Item Types
Physical
Usages
School and Community
Chamber Music Violin

SKU: PO.PE011

Composed by Lyell Cresswell. Performance Score. Composed 1998. Promethean Editions #PE011. Published by Promethean Editions (PO.PE011).

ISBN 9781877218118.

The powerful Whira (1997) demands both virtuosic pyrotechnics and nuanced expressive abilities from the solo violinist. The first and last of its seven movements are bold and ferociously inventive, while the longer second and sixth movements are slow and elegiac but no less concise or intense. The three middle movements form an intermezzo of sorts, incorporating a quirky pizzicato study and a clever 80th birthday tribute to Douglas Lilburn, doyen of classical music composition in New Zealand.