From the Stoep (2012)
Three Easy Pieces for Piano Duet (easy primo part)
Requested by Antony Gray for his 'Il Maestro e lo Scolare' piano duet project
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Score BDE 1201
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
CD Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray (secondo) and Jackson Caines (primo) on 'Il Maestro e lo Scolare: Piano Duets for Teacher and Pupil' (Divine Art DDA 21234)
Première
First concert performance: 3 March 2017; Purpur Festival, Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town; Coila-Leah Enderstein and Michael Blake piano four hands; European premiere: 21 July 2017; Le Genesteix, France; Coila-Leah Enderstein and Michael Blake piano four hands
Programme note
Taking the ‘classic’ duets by Stravinsky as its jumping-off point, here with an easier ‘primo’ part, these vignettes reimagine specifically Southern African (including Madagascan) musics through the lens of the twentieth century piano landscape. They were a response to a request by Antony Gray for his “Il maestro e lo scolare” project, a double CD recorded with some 50 of his students. From the Stoep is dedicated to Stephanus and Elmi Muller and lasts about 8 minutes.
Three Easy Pieces for Piano Duet (easy primo part)
Requested by Antony Gray for his 'Il Maestro e lo Scolare' piano duet project
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Score BDE 1201
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
CD Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray (secondo) and Jackson Caines (primo) on 'Il Maestro e lo Scolare: Piano Duets for Teacher and Pupil' (Divine Art DDA 21234)
Première
First concert performance: 3 March 2017; Purpur Festival, Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town; Coila-Leah Enderstein and Michael Blake piano four hands; European premiere: 21 July 2017; Le Genesteix, France; Coila-Leah Enderstein and Michael Blake piano four hands
Programme note
Taking the ‘classic’ duets by Stravinsky as its jumping-off point, here with an easier ‘primo’ part, these vignettes reimagine specifically Southern African (including Madagascan) musics through the lens of the twentieth century piano landscape. They were a response to a request by Antony Gray for his “Il maestro e lo scolare” project, a double CD recorded with some 50 of his students. From the Stoep is dedicated to Stephanus and Elmi Muller and lasts about 8 minutes.
