Solo Violin is an intimate medium with a rich variety of styles, despite the tricky compositional challenge of bowing to the constraints of four strings. Today, we share three vivid 21st-century works for solo violin:
• Matthew Peterson's Näcken, which brilliantly portrays a Swedish water spirit in the violin's brilliant palette of natural harmonics
• Lawrence Kramer's Outcry and Elegy, a deeply-felt response to the pandemic written in 2020 (world première)
• Tyler Capp's Stranger Variations, which interweaves the folk tune Wayfaring Stranger with fiddle and contemporary classical styles for a hopeful and joyous way forward.

https://youtu.be/fzQJMKrnJnw ~ listen and view, retrospectively