Nocturnes: book 2 for unaccompanied Violoncello
Anthony Powers
This suite of nine short movements describes a cycle of sleep and the moods of its dreams. It ends with the morning bells and the bright E major daylight of the Epilogue.
- Prologue
- Lento tranquillo
- Presto, nervoso
- Variation 1
- Variation 2
- Variation 3
- Allegro molto, bizarro
- Poco adagio, intimo
- Epilogue
Paperback
Published: 04 June 1987
Duration: 11 minutes
Difficulty: Difficult
16 Pages | 311x232mm
ISBN: 9780193582996 (0193582996)
Anthony Powers (b.1953)
Born in London in 1953, Anthony Powers studied at Oxford, in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, and at York with David Blake and Bernard Rands. He taught for two years at Dartington College of Arts before being appointed Composer-in-Residence to Southern Arts. Since then he has moved to Herefordshire where he continues to divide his time between composing and teaching, currently at Cardiff University, where he has been Professor of composition since 2004. Powers’s music is characterized by strong architectonic frameworks that support a language of poetic intensity and magical sonorities. His music often takes its inspiration from the tension between different states, be they physical properties, landscapes, seasons or emotions.