suite for two violins
Five Movements
Duration: 9 minutes
Premiere: March 3, 1969
Cecily Edmunds and Harry Moulin
San Francisco, CA
Publisher: ECS, Fenton, MO
The suite was composed 1952-53.
audio
Yukiko Kamei and Kenneth Renshaw, violins
1 Allegro vivo
2 Andante con moto
3 Vivace
4 Andante
5 Allegro grazioso
press
"The combination, far from being dull, had a vitality and sparkle totally absorbing to the ear. . . . rhythmic elements were the most immediately attractive, in an American modal style of harmony."
— San Francisco Chronicle