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Viola and piano - Grade 4-5 SKU: ET.VA30 Composed by Roger Steptoe. Contemporary. Editions BIM #VA30. Published by Editions BIM (ET.VA30). ISBN 9790207019899.I have always been passionately interested in composing for stringed instruments ever since the 1977 Suite for solo cello for which I won a BBC Young Composers Award. The lyrical and rythmical possibilities, the combined sonorities and sublties of bowing and expression have attracted me to compose an important number of string works. Recently I have been drawn to the viola - the Sonatine 1 [BIM VA28] for solo viola, the Three Paul Verlaine Songs [BIM MCX79]for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano, and now the Sonata. In this Sonata I have explored a new structure for my music. Although crafted in three separate movements it should be thought of as in one movement. A break between the extended lyricism and the energy of the second should be natural. But the second and third movements should be almost continuous with just a short pause between them. The composer is indebted to the distinguished British viola player, Sarah-Jane Bradley, for her generous help in editing and bowing the viola part. Roger Steptoe, january 2012, Uzerche, France.