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This Fragile Beauty (A Meditation for Piano & Violin) The Complete Work

by Russell Giffen

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Oft quoted from ‘Hamlet’ is the saying “Brevity is the soul of wit…” and I would also posit… the very soul of life herself. As every mountain defines a valley so every moment lies different side by side to it’s adjacent cousins. If things were infinite and endless, the holding of things precious would cease to be. Brevity gives us meaning... and with her lover fragility… the possibility of beauty herself. As soft and tender as two making love on a late and rainy afternoon… so is the fleetingness of time. As every valley defines a mountain… every moment holds the promise of something precious… something that lives on if only in memory. This is our shared experience… this… our fragile beauty.

Here… a meditation for piano and violin… as two players side by side give themselves to each other… and to music herself. The sustain pedal as audible as is the sound of rosin on the bow. The closeness of a precious moment… these players together… but for a time. This piece is therefore a meditation on brevity… and her lover… fragility.

- R.

This Fragile Beauty was composed and arranged by Russell Giffen. Produced, engineered and recorded in Ballet Hall at St.Sann’s / Cinterscore Studios NY.

Special thanks to Spitfire Audio UK, Air Studios London, The London Contemporary Orchestra, Soundiron and Embertone.… without whom this recording wouldn't have been possible.

Cover photography: c/Press Graphics / CM

To Brandi…

This Fragile Beauty © 2023 Russell Giffen. CM Publishing

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released December 17, 2023

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