Andrew Downes - Sonata for Cello & Piano

Sonata for Cello & Piano

Instrumentation

cello and piano

Other Information

First performed by Sharon McKinley, accompanied by Duncan Honeybourne, on 23rd April 2004, at the Birmingham Conservatoire Music Xtra Festival, in the Adrian Boult Hall.

‘... contrast (fierceness/lyricism, delicacy/drama) was explored through often ritualistic instrumental exchanges, generating a succession of evolving episodes. Pianist, Duncan Honeybourne... and cellist Sharon McKinley’s... pensive and tender dialogue in the third movement and the cello’s simple and dignified theme in the second delivered real emotional warmth.’  BIRMINGHAM POST