Carl Vine - Piano Sonata No. 1

- Composer: Carl Vine, AO (8 October 1954 -- present) - Performer: Michael Kieran Harvey - Year of recording: 1991 Piano Sonata No. 1, written in 1990. 00:00 - I. [no dynamic tempo marking] 08:23 - II. Leggiero e legato Australian composer Carl Vine uses a lot of open fourths and fifths in this piano sonata, and chords/arpeggios are often based on stacked fourths or fifths. The sonata is reminiscent in its form of Elliot Carter’s piano sonata, and in its intensity of Samuel Barber’s piano sonata. Notes by the dedicatee, Michael Harvey: “Drawing on the lithe beauty and contrapuntal elegance of the earlier Piano Sonata (1946) by Elliot Carter, the [1st] Piano Sonata by Carl Vine is a work characterised by intense rhythmic drive and the building up of layers of resonance. These layers are sometimes delicate and modal, archieving a ’pointed’ polyphony by the use of complex cross-rhythm, at other times they are granite-like in density, creating wa