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Track(s) taken from CDA68441

Darkness at Derwentwater

composer
Laurence Perkins (b1954)
2022

Laurence Perkins (bassoon), John Flinders (piano)
May 2025 Release
Recording details: April 2022
Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth, United Kingdom
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by Oscar Torres
Release date: May 2025
Total duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

Cover artwork: Cover illustration. Ghislaine Howard (b1953)
Photo © Adrian Lambert
 

Derwentwater, located in the northern part of Cumbria, is a beautiful lake surrounded by mountains, with the town of Keswick at its northern point. On a dark night, away from the town, this can be a very moody setting, and my miniature tone poem explores this image in music which is essentially melodic but also sparse and fragile in character.

from notes by Laurence Perkins © 2025

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