related works

Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Song (without words) no 2 : versie voor strijkkwintet (met piano ad libitum), 1996 / Maarten Bon

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Other combinations of string instruments; Other combinations of strings and keyboard instrument
Scoring: 2vl vla vc (pf ad lib.) vla-solo

Cinque dialoghi : per violino e violoncello, opus 121, 1990 / Jan Koetsier

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring: vl vc

Drie inventionen : voor viool en cello, 1937 / Hendrik Andriessen

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring: vl vc

composition

In the circumference of my solitude : for viola and double bass (scordatura), 1993 / Vanessa Lann

Other authors:
Lann, Vanessa (Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): In The Circumference Of My Solitude is inspired by a passage in the diaries of Anaïs Nin. She describes herself lying in bed with her husband; the more his arms tighten in a circle around her, the more solitary and lonely she feels. The violist represents the woman and proceeds through a cycle of agitated tremolo and pizzicato patterns. Meanwhile the bassist envelops her nervous gestures within a different rhythmic cycle of long and heavy open-stringed (scordatura) drones. As in a number of my other recent pieces, the recognizable rhythms and pitch patterns generate a sense of cyclical expectancy. However, at the end of this piece, the players have switched 'roles', exchanging their patterns in the form of a circle. - VANESSA LANN