CPMusicLibrary's video: Three Caprices for solo violin by Gary Kulesha - 1

Program Note by the composer Gary Kulesha: My Three Caprices were written in the years 1977 and 1978. They were not written for anyone in particular. I revised them rather extensively during April of 1998. At the time of their revision, I had never actually heard them. Since then, they have become some of my most performed works. The three are quite different, although they are all quite assertive and headstrong. The first begins with a rather ceremonial Maestoso, and develops into a freely flowing Allegro. The second is jagged and very angular, and was quite unlike anything I had ever written at the time. Since then, this kind of writing has become very much a part of my language. The third is a combination of these qualities, with a dramatic opening idea followed by an agitato middle section, closing with a climactic return to the opening. Although this music came very early in my career, the language, a free-flowing mixture of tonal and atonal materials, has remained central to my work. The quarter tones in the third caprice were colours that I added upon revision. They seemed to enhance the repeated note ideas I was working with in the original. Available for sale through our online store https://cpmusiclibrary.ca/product/three-caprices-solo-violin-kulesha/