Four Tonal Songs (1996, rev. 2025)

Vocal

1 Dec

Written By Tobias Wolf

A song-cycle of poems by Diaz, Rossetti & Japanese nō drama

Sop, pno

Duration:
9′

First Performance:
2 December 1998
Helena Thomas, Phillip Cooke, Concert Hall, Durham University, Durham, UK

Score

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Programme note

Four Tonal Songs were written in 1996 for my GCSE music composition portfolio. They reflect some of my teenage interests: Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Christina Rossetti and dodgy pop-songs. They nonetheless are quite pretty and an important part of my compositional development.

PAC

Recording

SopranoPianoRossetti

Tobias Wolf

Tobias Wolf is a photographer, musician and artist based in North East Scotland. With a background in conducting, composition and hybrid media, his creative practice has long been shaped by an interest in atmosphere, structure and the relationship between sound, image and place. Photography has been a lifelong companion — a way of slowing down, noticing light, and finding quiet meaning in everyday scenes.

https://www.tpwolf.com