{"product_id":"ophelias-last-dance-op-32-piano-solo-digital-download","title":"Ophelia's Last Dance Op.32 - Piano Solo (Digital Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOphelias Last Dance (Ophelia Dances, Book 2) is based on a melody dating from early in 1974, which was among several ideas intended for - but ultimately excluded from - Oliver Knussens Third Symphony (1973-79). Some of these evolved into the ensemble piece Ophelia Dances, Book 1 (1975), but this one, which nonetheless continued to haunt him from time to time over the years. After the death of his wife, Sue Knussen, it reminded the composer of a happier time and eventually, on the occasion of Paul Crossleys 60th birthday recital in 2004, he decided to give it a tiny frame of its own so it could be shared with listeners other than the one in his head. The present 10-minute work - written in 2009\/10 - is the result. A number of other homeless dance-fragments, related more by personal history and mood than by anything more concrete, are bound together by means of variously wrought transitions to and from rondo-like recurrences of the original melody.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuperb... In it, darkness, dissonance and freezing high notes creep into the childlike idyll of the opening. The effect is one of austere sophistication.\n\u003cbr\u003eThe New York Times (Zachary Woolfe), 23 April 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA gorgeous, nostalgia-drenched, Scriabin-like waltz.\n\u003cbr\u003eThe Guardian (Andrew Clements), 28 May 2012\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46669688242338,"sku":"DSM-FB-34627","price":13.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1279\/2287\/files\/1bb4c5cf-9097-4c83-97d0-651cd58d3bd2.jpg?v=1773376954","url":"https:\/\/www.adlibmusic.com.au\/products\/ophelias-last-dance-op-32-piano-solo-digital-download","provider":"Adlib Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}