Serenade for a fallen Soldier - String Trio

Here's a short work I composed a few years back - I took another look and made a few minor tweaks

All comments much appreciated. 

Mark

Edited June 14, 20223 yr by MJFOBOE

Easy to listen to and conveys a poignancy relating to the title. You come across as knowledgeable in string writing - the arrangement of accidentals suggests an awareness of how a player would finger a passage which is important in a highly legato piece.

It's a subject that causes me sadness. I'm not usually emotional but two works always cause me to react: Butterworth's setting of Housman's "Is my team ploughing," and Barber's "A Stopwatch and an Ordinance Map." 

Quite sad, intentionally unsolved (?) string trio you wrote. I liked it so much, specially the end as I did not expect it. Despite beginning with a C and ending with a C, the development of the piece (not only the two bars prior to the end) was asking to be resolved in F (imo of course), but you didn't concede the piece that, and that makes it extra sad to me.

I'm not much into giving pieces a meaning (neither mines nor others'), but I cannot avoid thinking that the tense, unsolved end in this piece is a good analogy of the soldier's life taken.

Kind regards and thank you for sharing this!