violinist composer conductor
Imago
for piano four-hands
Commission: The Françoise-Green Piano Duo, "The Viennese Salon" 2016 residency at St. John's Smith Square
Duration: 10 minutes
First performance: January 2016, St. John's Smith Square, London, Antoine Françoise & Robin Green
Romanian premiere: June 2016, vibrate!festival, Antoine Françoise & Robin Green
Score and parts available at:
Composed as a companion piece to Schubert Fantasia, Imago for piano four-hands explores the unique performing relationship between two musical forces expressing themselves out of one instrument. The backbone of the piece is a chorale setting of a modal gospel-inspired melody, in perpetual counterpoint with another force that is sometimes untamed, sometimes machine-like. The two performers jointly harness these two forces as twin polarities of one sonic entity.