related works
Swing Low : for soprano saxophone and piano / Donald Yu
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
s-sax pf
Circles : Version for contrabass and piano / Frédéric Devreese
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Double bass and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
db pf
Semantic song : for double bass and piano, 1985 / Guibert Vrijens
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Double bass and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
cb pf
Canti : Version for contrabass and piano / Frédéric Devreese
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Double bass and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
db 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.