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Alex Taylor  

deepwalker

Duration: 09' 30" Year: 2011
work for vocalising clarinetist

  • Instrumentation
    solo clarinet
  • Programme Note

    In many ways this is a companion piece to an earlier work, Vivid for solo trumpet, which also sets a powerful, sexually charged poem by Will Christie. But where Vivid is very often overtly violent and forceful in its gestures, deepwalker is mostly much subtler, almost passive-aggressive in outlook. The opening lines of the poem – “the day is a drum that connects these vocal loops with grey traffic circles bridge after bridge” – are mirrored in the cyclical, sometimes elliptical form of the work, loops and circles that play between registers of the clarinet. Sexual tension and aggression bubble away in the background, periodically rupturing the musical surface with piercing, angular outbursts, sometimes in parallel with the rather tender, fluid lines of the low register, and with the spoken text itself. This violent interplay creates a kind of disordered internal conversation, a bizarre hermetic character opening and shutting her windows; a clarinet of many voices.

    Warning: contains coarse language

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Robbie Ellis  

If Zack de la Rocha were a twelve-tone serialist composer

Duration: 00' 30" Year: 2010
microscore for clarinet quartet

Robbie Ellis  

It Doesn't Go Up

Duration: 00' 30" Year: 2010
microscore for clarinet quartet

Anthony Ritchie  

Polish Dances

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2010
for flute and piano

  • Programme Note

    This work was written for flutist, Adrianna Lis, for performances and a CD recording. It is based on three Polish dance pieces:

    1. Slaski comes from, a folk song from the area in Poland where Adrianna Lis was born. The version I based my piece on was performed by Chlopaki Chlopaki.
    2. Mazurka in A minor, op.68, No.2 (posthumous) by Chopin. This was chosen to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth.
    3. Polka Szabasowka, not originally from Poland but adopted by Polish folk performers. The version I based my piece on was performed on piano accordian by Miroslaw Marks.

    These dances were transcribed as used as a basis for free re-composition.

    Anthony Ritchie

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Philip Brownlee  

The Hedgehog's Dilemma

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 2010
microscore for clarinet quartet

Michael Williams  

When We Fell

 Year: 2011
for flute with digital effects and backing track

  • Programme Note

    Having heard Adrianna Lis in concert, I was excited by the prospect of writing for her and was thrilled to contribute a piece for her CD Dialogue/Rozmowa produced by Atoll Records. We discovered in subsequent conversations that we shared a common interest in WWII history and decided there and then that this should be the central idea. The horrors of WWII remain very much part of the Polish collective memory. Like many of her countrymen Adrianna does not wish for the events of WWII, and in particular the treatment of the Polish people, to be forgotten or diluted by time, thereby diminishing the significance. When we Fell is a reflection of this idea. A fall from grace; a fall from humanity; a falling away from oneself. I have tried to imbue in this piece a sense of nostalgia, a hint of the military and in parts childlike innocence that in a strange way highlights the dismay at the loss of humility. The folk-like melody that runs through is an adaptation of the Polish song To Ostatnia Niedziela composed by Jerzy Petersburski (1936) – a nostalgic tango describing the final meeting of former loves who are parting, which had the dubious honor of often being poled while Jewish prisoners were led to their deaths in the gas chambers. The vocal track is recording of some of the text from this song but toward the end a passage from Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra is quoted in Polish.

    Michael Williams

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