Thus I determined to evaluation the second and third of the three albums he despatched me hyperlinks to, and right here they’re. Meyer clearly has his own method of writing music, and what impressed me essentially the most was that he doesn’t have but one “voice” as a composer. The Canzona for cello & piano, as an example, opens quite lyrically and tonally, although you possibly can tell from the ominous single bass notes performed by the pianist beneath the cello’s opening assertion that this is not a “song” that is all sweetness and lightweight. There is no much less than a shade of darkness to this canzone, and as we transfer from the lyrical opening to the quicker, busier center section, Meyer has the cellist alternate between bowed and pizzicato figures, which adds another shade of uneasiness to the proceedings. Before we even reach the halfway point, actually, the …
