Canterbury (2004)

The changes begin.

My piece for cello and piano entitled Canterbury is based on a four-bell change-ringing pattern of the same name. Four “bells” (represented by four piano chords) are presented in all possible groupings – while the cello plays long, lyrical phrases that rise to a high C and descend to the instrument’s lower range.

It is performed in this video by two Montreal-based musicians: cellist Dominique Beauséjour-Ostiguy and pianist Marie-Pier Allard.

© Colin Eatock 2020

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