A Winter Landscape
From The Bruegel Suite: A five-movement work for solo Piano on paintings by Pieter Bruegel
Duration: 4’30”
A Winter Landscape is quiet, meditative and almost hypnotic. One can imagine the lonely skaters, drawing their arcs on the frozen lake. Here, Lasser creates a unique minimalist approach of slowly evolving loops creating an hypnotic phasing of recurring musical material.
Commissioned by Pianist Simone Dinnerstein, the Bruegel Suite is a five-movement work on five paintings by Pieter Bruegel. The composer writes: “Bruegel’s genius resides in part in his amazing treatment of light in his paintings. Each painting creates a unique world of light and dark. It is the light and how it plays with the subject that I try to capture in sound.” The Bruegel Suite was premiered by Simone Dinnerstein at Koerner Hall in Toronto Canada in 2015. The other movements include:
Publisher: Rassel Editions, NY
