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These pieces were originally piano duets, written with one easy part for my wife to play, and presented to her on various anniversary occasions in the 1960s. This orchestral suite was arranged for the 1965 Cambridge Summer Music School, and first performed there by the school’s orchestra. The translation from piano to orchestral sounds makes many opportunities for variety of colours and for real sostenuto. But while orchestral sound is bound to be very different, I have attempted in the Trio of the Mexicana to capture something of the effect of the piano’s harmonic resonance to provide sustaining echoes of the oboe’s tune.

• Farquhar: Anniversary Suite No. 2; facsimile 

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• David Farquhar: Auras  Year: 1997 

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Mexicana is originally one of a series of duets written with one easy part, originally intended for my first wife (who was then a beginning pianist) to play with me. It is also one movement of Anniversary Suite No. 2

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In many ways Symphony (1968) which was composed in Toronto while I was studying with John Weinzweig, encapsulates what I wanted to achieve stylistically as a composer in this and in subsequent works.

I was interested in exploring a high degree of subtlety in tone colours and dramatic contrasts in rhythm and texture.

I wanted to achieve a string characterisation in the music by contrasting melodic, soloistic writing and contrapuntally inspired textures both fuelled by a lyrical impulse. In addition I wanted to lead my listeners through the delightful complexity of a sonic maze by the repetitions and extensions of clearly defined musical ideas.

These aspects can be heard in the Finale in the contrast between angular, jagged full orchestra textures and the soloist and ensemble sections. The percussion instruments are particularly prominent in this movement and the final climax features several percussive rhythmic layers.

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• Rimmer: Symphony (1968) - Manifesto; computer-set 

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