{"product_id":"freckleton-ward-landscape-longing-music-cd-880040212621","title":"Freckleton \/ Ward - Landscape \u0026 Longing - Music CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eOf the Eight Intermezzi, the composer writes: \"The inspiration for these pieces stems from the late piano intermezzi of Brahms. Some of the textures deliberately correspond. For example, the arpeggiated flow of No 2 mimics a comparable feel in Brahms's Op 117 No 2. The repeated upper notes of No 3, with the melody in the middle of the chords, nod towards a similar, if faster, manner in Op 119 No 3 [likewise the earlier same-key middle section of Chopin's first Nocturne from Op 48]. Pianistically and emotionally, No 8 is intentionally larger scaled.\" Of the Suite the composer writes: \"This is a collection of miniatures with differing inspirations but designed to be played as a continuous set. One or two (No 1 particularly) were meant to be of interest to my younger sister, Lucy, who at the time of their composition, in the mid-80s, was working towards her Grade 7. Others are intended to be descriptive. For example No 6, which recalls listening to the bells of Romsey Abbey in Hampshire from a few miles away in the Test Valley; and No 5, which imagines a spot along the Jurassic coastline between Swanage and Weymouth. Nos 3 and 7, the Studies in Fifths and Sevenths, were born out of a curiosity as to why Debussy didn't include these intervals in his piano tudes.\" Samantha Ward puts a virtuosic spin on these compositions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49209749766386,"sku":"QURT2126.2","price":24.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/7018\/9810\/files\/3809555.jpg?v=1778883262","url":"https:\/\/discandvinyl.com\/products\/freckleton-ward-landscape-longing-music-cd-880040212621","provider":"DiscandVinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}