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John Psathas  

Kartsigar

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 2005
for string quartet

  • Programme Note

    Both movements of this work began as transcriptions of recorded performances by two of Greece’s living master-musicians, clarino player Manos Achalinotopoulos and percussionist Vagelis Karypis. The Transcriptions are based on two separate recordings of a traditional taximi entitled Kartsigar. Taximia form part of an oral tradition in which improvisation played an important role. Songs would begin with an instrumental prelude, the taximi, where a musican showed off his prowess. This set the mood for the song to follow, and could last for as long as twenty minutes.

    The taximi Kartsigar comprises two elements, an ostinato and the improvised melody. The melody forms the basis of the first movement of the quartet, and the ostinato forms the basis of the second.

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Tony Lin  

Moth

Duration: 09' 30" Year: 2007, r. 2008
for violin duo

  • Instrumentation
    for two violins, incorporating a few extended techniques
  • Programme Note

    I had conceived the ideas for Moth long before it was written down on paper, having been kept awake on many occasions during the summer nights by the sounds of these fluttering insects. The sounds were fragmented by intervals of long silence, but they came so suddenly even the heaviest of sleepers would be irritated.

    Moths are beautiful and eerie nocturnal creatures; they use a celestial navigation system which keeps them flying in a straight line, but however are unable to resist bright objects nearby.

    In Moth, by using two violins, I have juxtaposed the serene attraction of the bright light, with the nervous and agitated behaviour of a single moth. Placing the violin parts closely together – both striving for a common goal, yet always in conflict with each other – I have attempted to portray the struggle of the poor creature who is forever trying to reach the moon.

    Chen (Tony) Lin

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Anton Killin  

Muoversi Lento

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2008
for viola and piano

William Harsono  

Music for Agus

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2000
one movement work for violin and Indonesian Zither

Matthew Davidson  

Music for Viola and Piano

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2006

Chris Adams  

Persephone

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2008
for string quartet

  • Programme Note

    Persephone is an abstract work for String Quartet. While the piece is not programmatic, the title did influence the piece, effecting the mood and the musical material.


    Persephone was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus in classical Mythology. Hades abducted her and took her back with him to the underworld. As a result, Demeter, the goddess of the Earth, became so upset that plants stopped growing as she searched everywhere for her lost daughter. To stop Earth from dying, Zeus forced Hades to return Persephone. However, Hades tricked her into eating pomegranate seeds, which forced her to return to the underworld for a season each year. As a result, for four months each year, Persephone returned to the underworld and the earth became barren.


    The piece begins with a number of different musical fragments which are developed and integrated throughout the piece and interspliced with a number of other sections. The conceptual images of moving between two different worlds evoked swirling chromatic semiquaver sections and the sense of viewing the world from another place added to the sense of distortion and fragmentation which is a feature of the work.

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Robin Fazakerley  

Sea Change

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2007
for cello and piano

Philip Brownlee  

Sinew/Synapse

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2001
for solo cello

Ewan Clark  

Soliloquy

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2001
for solo cello

Vivienne Sands  

String Quartet: In Memoriam - Matyas Seiber

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 2004
for string quartet