related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

4 pezzi antichi : per tre violini e violoncello, 1923 / Willem Pijper

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring: 3vl vc

Continuum : for string quintet, 1989 / Ronald Doornekamp

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring: 2vl 2vla vc

Selfportrait : (with Stephen Heller), for string quintet, 1990, revision 1994 / Maarten Bon

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring: 2vl 2vla 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