Listen to Ian Coleman performing his Canzona on 14th October 2006 at St John the Evangelist, Islington

Canzona (2006)

Canzona is Ian Coleman’s only completed organ work to date. It was first sketched out while he was still studying, and lay fallow for a number of years. In it, he takes as his model the Baroque form of the Canzona, which starts with a contrapuntal section in simple time, and then continues with one or two further sections treating the same melodic material in compound time. The relations of metre and rhythm are more convoluted in this particular Canzona, but the shift from a more staid, massive musical architecture to something more florid and virtuosic are maintained, within a harmonic language that remains tonal, if a good deal more free than would be encountered in the Baroque style.

Duration: 4 minutes
Available from: the composer
Price: £5.00