Home Stretch

Composer: Peter Scott Lewis
Released on November 1, 2019
Features Miranda Cuckson, violin; Christopher Gross, cello; and Stephen Gosling, piano.
Producer: Lapis Island Records: LIR004 © & ℗ 2019

      

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	TRACK	TITLE	DURATION	FLASH PLAYER	MP3
		Petite Suite for violin solo
	1.	An Opalescent Fantasy	2:03	MP3 Player
	2.	Leaping Green	2:05	MP3 Player
	3.	Quasi-Lullaby	3:08	MP3 Player
	4.	Roadrunner	3:12	MP3 Player
		Duo Concertante for cello and piano
	5.	Introduction and Jubilant Light	6:35	MP3 Player
	6.	Dance of Enveloping Wind and Fire	5:17	MP3 Player
	7.	The Hills Beyond	5:48	MP3 Player
	8.	Acrobatic Lines	4:47	MP3 Player
		Second Piano Trio
	9.	Urban Reflections	5:35	MP3 Player
	10.	Pastoral Settings, with Thunder	5:13	MP3 Player
	11.	Travelling Spheres	5:08	MP3 Player
	12.	Home Stretch	4:40	MP3 Player
	13.	Sun Music for piano solo	5:26	MP3 Player
			Total: 58:58

Performers:
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Christopher Gross, cello
Stephen Gosling, piano

Program Notes
Petite Suite for violin solo was completed on September 27, 2007. It’s in four movements and includes a large dynamic range. Yet it lays comfortably on the violin. It was originally composed as a companion piece to be performed with my two violin concertos. Yet it is also meant to stand on its own.

Duo Concertante for cello and piano was composed as a highly virtuosic concert piece in four contrasting movements, inspired by Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto. While the first draft was completed in July 2011, the final score was completed in August 2015. This recording is its first performance, since it has yet to be premiered live.

Second Piano Trio was commissioned by the Western Michigan University School of Music for their 100th anniversary and is dedicated to the School. It was completed in San Francisco on June 9, 2012 and was premiered on March 13, 2013 at the University’s Dalton Center Recital Hall, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Merling Trio, who is in residence there, was the premiering ensemble. Like Rhapsodic Images, my first piano trio, this composition treats all three instruments equally and doesn’t overtly focus on the piano.

Sun Music for piano solo was completed on January 5, 1987. It was premiered in May of that year by Miles Graber, in San Francisco. It was first recorded by Robin Sutherland, Principal Pianist of the San Francisco Symphony, for New Albion Records, in 1996. It’s a single movement fantasy. While it has minimalistic tendencies, the music constantly changes and has unpredictable flourishes. This is the second recording.