Description
Samuel, Rhian: Dream-Images
Ref
H438
Categories
Instrumental Music
,
Piano & Early Keyboard
,
Piano Solo
By
Rhian Samuel
Winding Paths
Interlude I
Distant Fountains
Interlude II
Weeping Trellises.
Rhian Samuel is a co-editor of the
Grove Dictionary of Women Composers
and herself a composer of highly acclaimed instrumental and vocal works, including
Daughter’s Letters
, premiered in 1996 by Sinfonia 21. She wrote
Dream-Images
in memory of her teacher, Andrew Byrne. Two interludes separate the three ‘images’, each of which is rhapsodic in mood. The last,
Weeping Trellises
, refers to the gentle, drooping blooms of the wisteria plant, and, emotionally, to feelings of inevitability and loss.
Dream-Images
was first performed by Martin Roscoe at the Machynlleth Festival in August 1997.
