Lament

Im Sommer 2020 haben Huw Watkins und Ben Goldscheider Lament aufgenommen, ein neues Werk für Horn und Klavier, das Huw speziell für eine neue gemeinsame CD geschrieben hat. "When Ben Goldscheider asked me to write a new piece for a CD celebrating the legacy of Dennis Brain, I immediately thought of Poulenc’s Elégie (written in memory of Brain) and its juxtaposition of violent anger and lyrical beauty, and felt I wanted to do something similar. Lament begins quietly, with long, expressive horn lines emerging from a web of piano harmony. At its climax, the horn writing becomes anguished, accompanied by increasingly dissonant piano chords, before a muted return to the opening music, the harmony less consoling now." – Huw Watkins Schwierigkeitsgrad: 5