Paul Lewis
TWO SOLILOQUIES for harp
Goodmusic GM252
Two musical love letters written for harpist Elizabeth Jane Baldry in 1997 and released for publication in 2018.
1. LINGERINGLY LANGUID
Coolly neo-classical with moments of heightened emotion.
2. CARESSINGLY
Built upon two three-note motifs representing the initials of dedicatee and composer. Using an extended musical alphabet in which the initials EJB become the notes ECB, the defining notes of a C major seventh, the composer’s favourite chord, and PRL becomes BDE, the two motifs, almost the exact mirror images of one another, are interlaced like the initials in a lovers’ knot on a Tudor betrothal ring.
Duration 8½ minutes
Also available in a version for Flute (or Violin), Viola and Harp (GM255)
1. LINGERINGLY LANGUID
Coolly neo-classical with moments of heightened emotion.
2. CARESSINGLY
Built upon two three-note motifs representing the initials of dedicatee and composer. Using an extended musical alphabet in which the initials EJB become the notes ECB, the defining notes of a C major seventh, the composer’s favourite chord, and PRL becomes BDE, the two motifs, almost the exact mirror images of one another, are interlaced like the initials in a lovers’ knot on a Tudor betrothal ring.
Duration 8½ minutes
Also available in a version for Flute (or Violin), Viola and Harp (GM255)
