Work
Aagje's Lied
for solo violin
About
Mark Menzies’s charming and disarming ‘Aagje's Lied’ was written as part of a set of violin pieces in 2014, collectively titled ‘Summer Tributaries’.
Mark writes, “The tributary flow of music for Aagje's Lied is the opening theme of Mozart's piano sonata in A major, K331: the violin part keeps drifting off into harmonics, offering the listener a palimpsest-like shadow of the originating theme's undulations. Aagje is the given name of my mother, who was born in Holland; the piece is dedicated to her.”