Moonscape

Roxburgh, Edwin

About the work

The piece is parked ‘contemplating but expressive. The first section is marked cantabile, the second ‘dark and distant, but relentless’, and the third ‘very distant’.

First Performance: June 1996, Spectrum Launch, Royal College of Music

Technical notes

The opening is slow moving. This is followed by a passage with fast notes alternating between the hands, before a concluding section in shifting triplet chords.

Origin

Thalia Myers