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- Stuart Greenbaum
The Lake and the Hinterland (1999)
(for Cello and Piano)- Wise Music G. Schirmer Australia Pty Ltd (World)
Programme Note
This work first came into the world as an occasional piece written in celebration of the marriage of Henriette Rothschild and Mathew McCrum on 1 November 1997. The subsequent expansion of that simple tune into this duo for cello and piano developed alongside contemplation of Ross Baglin’s Late Autumn Lullaby*, notably the lines:
Stay close now as winter’s
White fuse burns across
The lake and the hinterland
The premiere performance was given by Eleanor Lewis and Stuart Greenbaum on 4 July 2000 at Scott’s School Hall, Albury.
Stuart Greenbaum
*(excerpt from Late Autumn Lullaby by Ross Baglin)
A hinterland is a district behind a coast, or river's banks with the suggestion of sparse population. The full text to Baglin's poem is one I had already set for voice, and the resonance of that setting continues in this piece for cello and piano.