Imaginary Conversation for violin and piano

It is one of a chamber music composed by Hong Kong composer Man-Ching Donald Yu. The piano accompaniment is played by the composer himself. The composer remarks as follows:The music is inspired by the best-known prose work of the English poet and author Walter Savage Landor which comprises 6 volumes of imaginary conversations between personalities of classical Greece and Rome, poets and authors, statesmen and women, and fortunate and unfortunate individuals. The music begins with the dissonant tremolo of the violin being accompanied with the uprising of the piano chromatic areas. The chromatic thematic material is stated by the violin where the piano generates some pedal points at a lower register. After passing through several passages of chromatic materials, the music arrives at a second thematic point where the violin reaches its highest register in this section. After that, the central section emerges the violin part becomes more melodious and fanciful in character while being accompanied by the ostinato cell of the piano part. After passing through several ostinato cells in several tonal focused point, the music reaches its climax by means of two loud and heavy tone clusters. The recitative section begins where the violin restates the transformed motivic materials in the first section. Soon, the piano joins in by several ostinato cells which recalls the materials in the central section. The piece ends with a sudden loud tone which gives some surprises to audiences.