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Craig Utting  

Cirrus

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2002
for orchestra

Craig Utting  

Collages

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1992
for twelve violas

Robin Toan  

Concertino

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 2010
for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and orchestra

John Ritchie  

Concertino for Clarinet and String Orchestra

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1957

Anthony Ritchie  

Concertino for Piano and Strings

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1982

Kenneth Young  

Dance

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1997
for orchestra

Larry Pruden  

Dances of Brittany

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1956
for string orchestra

Lyell Cresswell  

Dancing on a Volcano

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1996
for orchestra

John Rimmer  

December Nights

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1970
for chamber orchestra

Nigel Keay  

Diffractions

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1987
for piano and orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    1111;1110; tamtam; strings (44321)
  • Programme Note

    This musical analogy to the physical phenomenon of light breaking up is written in a pointillistic style, with sinuous melodic fragments leaping across the piano keyboard in jagged cross-rhythmic dancing. Angular counter- melodies are provided by a chamber orchestra of single winds and brass with 14 strings in this single movement.

    The idea of diffractions is represented in sound by the piano, central and prominent, exploiting an aspect of its technique to which it is ideally suited: rapid changes of direction and wide intervallic leaps with extreme dynamics. The orchestra provides bands of coloured spectra forming an integrated texture. The melody, oscillating and colourful is sometimes pointillistic and at other times it flows into longer continuous phrases.

    Diffractions is essentially an abstract work in one continuous movement.

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