Lucky's Dream
Instrumentation: solo violin
Duration: 3'
Date of Composition: 2008
World Premiere: Keisuke Okazaki, Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 22 October 2008
UK Premiere: Darragh Morgan, Schott Recital Room, Bauer & Hieber, London, 5 February 2009
Availablility: Copies available for purchase, ref. Y274
Programme Note
A complementary work to Lucky’s Speech (2006) for violin, with which it may optionally be performed as a sequel, Lucky’s Dream grows out of one of the few calm moments in the earlier work inspired by a pivotal moment in Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot. Lucky’s Dream was composed for a recital given by Keisuke Okazaki which also included the E major Partita by Bach. This outstanding example of how a single melodic line might sustain a contrapuntal sense through the interplay of different registers and types of music inspired the composer to attempt his own realisation of such a texture in a style remote from Bach’s yet nonetheless indebted to it.
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