Winter Suite

Winter Suite (5”)

 

This suite of three pieces was commissioned for someone’s birthday. As the month of her birthday was November, I decided upon “winter” as the theme. Each movement describes in music atmospheric English winter scenes. Light and ethereal. Suitable for performances or enjoyment at home. This suite won first prize in EPTA UK (European Piano Teachers Association UK) teachers’ composition.

 

 

The first movement. Winter, is featured in a winter video on my Youtube channel: suzannemunromusic and is also available on my Spotify album “Inspiration from Nature”. Mist, is available on “Tranquility”.

 

 

Further notes on the individual movements can be found in ‘Extended Notes’ notes below, which may be used for programme notes.

 

 

Prices:

Score £6.00

mp3s 50p

 

Listen here:

 

Winter Suite mvt. 1 Winter

 

Winter Suite 2 Mist

 

Winter Suite  mvt. 3 The Running Brook (live performance – Simon Callahan)

 

 

 

Description

Winter

– An ice and frost grips all in winter beauty – a frosted world.

This little miniature takes us to a white world of winter: ice; frost, where in a landscape of beauty, every twig is ready to snap in the icy cold: a world of winter.…

 

Mist

– Gently rolling over the early winter fields, through barely leaf-clad trees across a landscape ploughed 

The third movement begins with the same rising pattern of quavers as “The running Brook” but at a much slower tempo… gentle rolling mist. The whole movement has a soft and gentle dreamy quality, helped by the sustaining pedal being held across several bars at a time.

 

The Running Brook 

– Running and splashing by the frosted rocks – with water clear, like shining crystal glass.

The movement opens with a repeated left hand quaver pattern: the running brook, over the top of which the right hand plays a slightly varied repeated motive; little splashes of water…

 

 

Additional information

Download option

Score, Suite mvt 1 Winter mp3, Suite mvt 3 Mist mp3

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