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Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio and Pierre Boulez have long been in my group of compositional heroes. Not that I have always understood or accepted what they were doing but rather because they opened new vistas of compositional processes.

Stockhausen in particular offered composers new ideas about the way music is structured. His ‘moment’ forms made a deep impression and his early electronic music pieces Gesang der Jünglinge and Kontakte blazed new pathways. They are classics in the music of the twentieth century.

Adieu KS for solo vioklin is my musical way of offering a deep sense of gratitude to Karlheinz Stockhausen. This short hommage nods in the directly of Stockhausen’s early Sonatina for violin and piano and utilises a sequence of pitches from this work. Fragments contrast with continuity, melody with violinistic sounds and movement with stasis.

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• John Rimmer: Adieu KS; audio 

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• Release: The Mozart Fellowship  Year: 2012 

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Meditation was commissioned by Tessa Petersen and John Van Buskirk for performance in a concert celebrating the opening of the Chinese Gardens in Dunedin, New Zealand, 2008. The piece takes an ancient Chinese poem as its point of departure, a text that focuses on Nature and its relationship to humans. The music spontaneously expresses thoughts of Nature and beauty, using simple ideas based around modes, repeated ostinati, and a mixture of long melodic lines and shorter motifs. Various timbres on both instruments are explored, and the pianist plays on the strings of the instrument with mallets at the beginning and end of the piece. The piece is structured in 3 main sections: slow-faster-slow, and all sections are played without a break.

• Anthony Ritchie: Meditation - downloadable PDF 

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• Anthony Ritchie: Meditation - hardcopy score & part  Year: 2013 

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• Release: The Mozart Fellowship  Year: 2012 

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Questioning the mountain was written in June 2008, immediately after the devastating earthquake in my home region of Sichuan.

The piece is a meditation on the tragic event and a nostalgic offering to my motherland. Its slow and procession-like unfolding suggests some kind of ritual, at once sombre and graceful.

A fragment from the Sichuan folksong On the High Mountains becomes a recurring motif, like an unanswered question, which at the end transforms into a repeating bass line which gives the foundation to flourishing melisma in the high register on the piano.

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 11 - Chamber Music III  Year: 2010 

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• Biddington: Reverie for Violin and Piano; computer set  Year: 2008 

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• The Land God Gave To Meg - Chamber Music of Eric Biddington 

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52 short tunes with a beat. European styled fiddle tunes with Celtic, English, Balkan and Klezmer influences.

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• Accordatura Violin - Chris Prosser 

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