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Brent Parker  

Achill Suite

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2002
for piano

Nigel Keay  

Adagietto Antique

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2009
Trio for clarinet, viola & piano

Eric Biddington  

Adagio for Bassoon and String Orchestra

Duration: 07' 30" Year: 2007

Eric Biddington  

Adagio Triste

 Year: 2008
for two violins and piano

John Rimmer  

Adieu KS

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2008
for solo violin

  • Programme Note

    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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Martin Lodge  

Aequora tuta silent (all the sea was quiet)

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2006
for viola, alto saxophone and electronic effects

  • Programme Note

    When Virgil penned his great story of national mythology for the Roman state and empire, he called it The Aeneid, since the poem recounts the travels and adventures of Aeneas, a latter day Ulysses. As Aeneas and his fleet are sailing from Carthage toward Italy they encounter a violent storm and seek shelter in the protected harbour of a small island off the coast of North Africa. Here rocky outcrips provide a haven. Aequora tuta silent Virgil writes – the water is calm and silent.
    Friendly sounds echo back and forth across the water between the cliffs.

    Notes taken from Toru, Atoll CD (ACD 143)

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Jonathan Besser  

African Legacy

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2004
for acoustic guitar, keyboard, percussion, bass guitar, drums, taonga puoro (Maori instruments) with Maori and English vocals

Matthew Davidson  

After Brahms

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2000
nine concert tangos for piano four hands

Bruce Crossman  

After Resonance Blues

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 2005
for piano

  • Programme Note

    After Resonance Blues explores the Korean idea of aftertone via interval-colour resonances and string after tones (partial un-dampening, prepared bass strings) as well as a Japanese intensification structure. Both of these relate to the idea of timbre grittiness and chordal intensification structure of the twelve-bar structure/grittiness in the blues. A spacious fourth resonance, very slow, at the very opening eventually opens out into a frenetic paced fifths sequence using blues riff patterns but intermingled with an interval-colour richness at the end-time climax. An after resonance string stimulation returns at the end to mirror the beginning prepared notes. The work contains transformed elements of Korean Ritual music; the mood is tinged with lyric sadness (“blue”) in that it reflects an inner emotion over the death of a Korean friend’s father prior to embarking on the work.

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Mike Nock  

Afterbach

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 2005
for piano