related works
a young woman came up to me : for piano and orchestra / Piet-Jan van Rossum
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Scoring:
pf-solo 3fl 3ob 2cl cl-b fg fg-b 4h 2trp trb-t trb-b tb 3perc 2hp pf str
1e sonate : voor viool en piano, 1932 / Jan Felderhof
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vl pf
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vl pf
Sonata : per violino e pianoforte, 1940 / Fré Focke
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vl pf
composition
arnica cedar lake : for violin and piano / Piet-Jan van Rossum
Other authors:
Rossum, Piet-Jan van
(Composer)
Description:
"arnica cedar lake" is the place where no man comes, an imaginary lake deep in the forests of which could be said 'God's spirit moved upon the face of the waters'. Violinist Cynthia Miller - Freivogel asked me to write a piece in memory of her teacher Camilla Wicks, one of the first strong female violinists who lived her last years in such an American forest, self-supporting.
This image of the pioneer, in several ways, a strong character living close to the essence of our planet made me dream up the arnica cedar lake, where God still moves upon the face of the water, far from this species that he created; He loves them (still one of the bigger mysteries to me), but surely He dislikes their ugly sides and must have His moments of self-chosen loneliness to be, for a moment, inside his eartly creation of time and oxygen, of animals and trees, of spirit and limitation: this beautiful system, before He returns to his earth-surrounding dimension where time and space are flexible entities, where future and history are representations of the now.
The music of 'arnica cedar lake' stays away from what we know as virtuosity: the circus-act where a musician can show fastness and bravura. Nothing wrong with that, it's just that I have always been more of a quiet walker then a sportsman and that I try to catch a world close to 'spiritual virtuosity': a blind man's vision of a world to come, because: what do we know? Very little. What can we dream off? Everything.
Piet-Jan van Rossum, January 31st, 2022