Program Note
Frozen Landscape is an exploration of gesture in a unilinear environment. Originally a two-minute exercise in composition written in 2004, this work uses an ordered set of gestures, derived from several of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, to control the exposition of phrase shape. Control over pitch class was not a central focus until, after several years, I decided to revise the exercise into a full composition. This allowed me to expand the dramatic range, fully exploiting the melancholy expressiveness of the bassoon. Frozen Landscape is included on Beauport Classical’s CD Collaboration II: Fleeting Visions, which was released in 2008.
— Jamie Leigh Sampson
— Jamie Leigh Sampson
Reproduction Notice:
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.