Summer Beckons
Music of Sally Greenaway
Summer Beckons captures the beauty of the leafy growth in a walled garden:
...in Summer the walls are covered with blossoms and buds and tendrils reaching...
The piece was written as a response to Martina Hoffman's poem 'My Love is a House'. Several composers were commissioned by Thea Zimple to create a song cycle bringing to musical life the text of Hoffman's poem (with poetry and music interwoven with narrator and music ensemble).
The introduction and middle sections evoke the shimmering of water fountains. The music expands with a vivid and joyful wonder as the vine tendrils twirl, seeking their next grip hold as they face their leaves towards the warmth of the sun: the beauty and bounty of Summer growth!
The original scoring of this work was for flute and piano, but the composer has also re-worked the music violin and piano.
Versions of this work appear in these recordings
Summer Beckons
Sally Greenaway
Released 2022
Performed by Barbara Jane Gilby and Sally Greenaway
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