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Fand Music Press is delighted to present December Spring, a new piano work by John Mitchell, together with Peter Thompson’s String Quartet no 7.
Composed in December 2018, December Spring borrows its title from a Jocelyn Brooke poem, which reflects on our darkest month, and how some will see it as a negative time of year whilst others are already focused on a brighter Spring ahead. Accordingly, the piece veers towards a mood that is hauntingly sombre, but one that also has several moments of quiet optimism and serenity.
Peter Thompson’s new String Quartet no 7 is in three movements. Like the other quartets in the cycle it is unconventional in form and contains unexpected allusions to previous works – which adds a personal tone to its expression. The three movements, though tending to brevity, are nonetheless each romantic in tone and related intrinsically.
A revised second edition of Peter Thompson’s String Quartet no 2 (‘Integration’) has also just been issued.
Previous announcements may be found in the Fand News Archive.
