Tag: Oliver Knussen

 
Oliver Knussen (12 giugno 1952 - 2018): Sonya’s Lullaby op. 16 (1977). Melanie Spanswick, pianoforte.

« The word Lullaby is used in the sense of an incantation to sleep; Sonya is my daughter, who was a four-month-old insomniac in October 1977 when the first sketch of this piece was written. Formally the music is, I hope, self-explanatory –- but perhaps it is worth mentioning that an initials stimulus toward the piano writing was the harmonic exploitation of overtones produced from the lowest register of the instrument by composers as diverse as Brahms, Scriabin, Copland and Carter » (Oliver Knussen).