Scriabin Fragments (1986)
for solo piano
Music for the dance Spleen et Idéal by Bridget Crowley
Dedicated to Bridget and Rebecca
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Published in: Collected Shorter Piano Pieces Vol 3 (forthcoming)
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: c. 5 minutes
Première
August 1986, Edinburgh Festival, Dancers Anonymous, Bridget Crowley (reciter) and
Michael Blake (piano)
Programme note
Spleen et Idéal, the opening section of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, with its dualistic struggle between ennui, profound melancholy and mortal despair (Spleen) and the pursuit of beauty, art and escape from mundane reality (Idéal) inspired this solo for a beautiful young dancer, accompanied by Crowley's delivery of the poem, and fragments of late piano pieces by Scriabin. I subsequently assembled these fragments into a short piano piece.
for solo piano
Music for the dance Spleen et Idéal by Bridget Crowley
Dedicated to Bridget and Rebecca
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Published in: Collected Shorter Piano Pieces Vol 3 (forthcoming)
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: c. 5 minutes
Première
August 1986, Edinburgh Festival, Dancers Anonymous, Bridget Crowley (reciter) and
Michael Blake (piano)
Programme note
Spleen et Idéal, the opening section of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, with its dualistic struggle between ennui, profound melancholy and mortal despair (Spleen) and the pursuit of beauty, art and escape from mundane reality (Idéal) inspired this solo for a beautiful young dancer, accompanied by Crowley's delivery of the poem, and fragments of late piano pieces by Scriabin. I subsequently assembled these fragments into a short piano piece.
