Very nicely done, Stuart. On Feb 18, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Stuart Walsh wrote: > Lars Sandberg's Five White Pieces are very strange indeed. I know of them > from a CD of Lars Sandberg's music and they are written for, and exquisitely > played by, Peter Söderberg on the CD. The lute pieces (in 4/4 and using only > 'white' notes) sit alongside chamber music of a much more obviously modernist > cast. > > The music (like other modern Swedish lute music) is not in tablature. It's > very clear that Sandberg wants certain notes to be sustained as other notes > are played. This makes things difficult! > > I don't know if it is bad form to play just one piece from the five - or > whether this is territory that only the most specialist of specialists can > inhabit - but here's a go at the second of the five. It doesn't sound like > there is much going on but it's really very tricky - but also very intriguing > and strange. > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61axzK2bUGk > > > Stuart > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
