related works

Disintegration : for piano and electronics / Man-Ching Yu Donald

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Piano with multimedia
Scoring: pf tape

Quatre pièces pour contrebasse et piano : opus 24, 1995 / Arne Werkman

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Double bass and keyboard instrument
Scoring: cb pf

Ars aequi : for piano and two double-basses, 1984 / Rob du Bois

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Double bass and keyboard instrument
Scoring: 2cb pf

Romanza : for double bass and piano / Fergus Currie

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Double bass and keyboard instrument
Scoring: cb pf

composition

Sign of Spring 春跡 : for double bass and piano / Man-Ching Yu Donald

Author(s):
Yu, Donald (Composer)
Description:
The piece is inspired by the modern Chinese painting “Sign of Spring” by artist Zhang Guanghai. It begins with a variety of subtle and rich pianistic gestures, soon joined by the bass, which juxtaposes with the piano through the use of Chinese elements and pentatonic materials, complemented by delicate chromatic fragments. The music reaches its climax in the middle section, where the bass and piano exhibit extreme registral tone color effects. Towards the end, the piece swiftly fades away, utilizing a series of glissando harmonics produced by the bass.