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Liane Curtis: "Rebecca Clarke’s Early Pieces for Two Violins and Piano"

Liane Curtis presents Rebecca Clarke ’s Early Pieces for Two Violins and Piano and Our Expanding Understanding of Her Music 1.  Prelude (Lento) 2.  Nocturne ( Adagio ) 3.  Danse Bizarre ( Vivace ) Laura Bossert and Gabriela Diaz, violins Eliko Akahori, piano While Rebecca Clarke’s Viola Sonata (1919) has taken its place as a canonic work, the full range of her music remains to be explored.  Several early works were discovered in her estate in 2000, including three pieces for two violins and piano: Prelude, Danse Bizarre and Nocturne.  Although these pieces were premiered and recorded in 2003, their publication took place only in 2012, so the process of understanding their place in her creative output is just beginning. Written in late 1908 or 1909, while Clarke was studying composition at the Royal College of Music (London), they give no trace of being student works, and instead demonstrate a fully developed, evocative compositional voice....