Peter Maxwell Davies: Farewell to Stromness & Yesnaby Ground: Piano:

Farewell to Stromness is a piano interlude from The Yellow Cake Revue a sequence of cabaret-style numbers against uranium mining in the Orkney Islands. The Revue was first performed at the St Magnus Festival Orkney by Eleanor Bron with the composer at the piano in June 1980.This performance inspired Timothy Walker to transcribe Farewell to Stromness for solo Guitar. He performed it two days later in Kirkwall Cathedral as part of the same festival.

Dans l'esprit de désormais célèbre Farewell du compositeur to Stromness, cette suite de pièces courtes tire son inspiration de la northern Orcades île de Sanday sur lequel il vit. Dans trois magnifiques miniatures pour piano, il capture le caractère particulier de la Knowes o ' achillée millefeuille, eaux de Woo et Kettletoft Pier. / Piano