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Susan Beresford  

A Jaunty Tune

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 2003
For piano and cello

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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Jack Body  

Aeolian Harp

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1999
for solo viola

  • Programme Note

    This piece was inspired by the beguiling sounds of the aeolian harp to which I was first introduced by Chris Cree Brown. Said to have been first ‘discovered’ by the ancient Greeks, aeolian harps are intended to be played not by human hands, but by the wind. The strings vibrates through a range of harmonics creating an eerie effect difficult to describe.


    Jack Body

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Jack Body  

Aeolian Harp

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1979
for solo violin

Jack Body  

Aeolian Harp

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1999
for solo cello

  • Programme Note

    This piece was inspired by the beguiling sounds of the aeolian harp to which I was first introduced by Chris Cree Brown. Said to have been first ‘discovered’ by the ancient Greeks, aeolian harps are intended to be played not by human hands, but by the wind. The strings vibrates through a range of harmonics creating an eerie effect difficult to describe.


    Jack Body

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Karlo Margetic  

Agnus Dei III (string quartet)

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 2011
from "Missa Prolationum" composed by Johannes Ockeghem, arranged for string quartet by Karlo Margetic

David Farquhar  

Au clair de la Lune

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1965
for violin and piano

Jonathan Crehan  

Bittersweet Memories

Duration: 02' 30" Year: 2001
for violin and piano

Dorothy Buchanan  

Cello Duet

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1982
for two cellos

James Gardner  

Charge

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1997, r. 2000
for solo violin

  • Programme Note

    This short piece was written as a twenty-first birthday present for clarinetist Esther Smaill. The melodic fragment heard at the outset soon skitters over its own unstable surface, mutates into fanfare-like repetitions, is spliced with momentary cantabile inserts, is interrupted by slow motion signposts, and blows itself out in a final burst of energy.

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