Gabriela Lena Frank: "Soliloquio Serrano No. 2" (2020) | Molly Wise, viola

Recorded from my third doctoral recital in Duncan Recital Hall at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University.
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American composer Gabriela Lena Frank wrote "Soliloquio Serrano No. 2" in 2020 for violist Margaret Audrey Snyder. The first “Serrano” piece is Frank’s Sonata Serrana No. 1 for four-hands piano. The composer does not specify what “Serrano” refers to here-the pepper, the Native American tribe in Southern California, the small town of Villa Serrano in Bolivia, or something entirely different. We can infer two things from the short piece’s title: it draws inspiration from Latin American influences, as many of Frank’s pieces do; and it is to be performed as a soliloquy. In the dramatic arts, a soliloquy is a monologue addressed to oneself, speaking one’s thoughts aloud with no one else privy. Soliloquio Serrano No. 2 opens with the protagonist singing alone onstage, continuing her musing amidst timbrally disparate interjections - one can imagine the sul ponticello passages as the wind whirling or trees rustling. While Frank certainly develops thematic material in this piece, it does not have a goal- oriented form. There are peaks and valleys, but no definite climax; it is more of a six-minute-long rumination or daydream, with its main themes almost unrecognizably transformed by its end.

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