Your cart

Total
NZD
Shipping and discount codes are added at checkout.

Work


Great Wall

for vocalising pianist

Year:  2005   ·  Duration:  15m

Year:  2005
Duration:  15m

Films, Audio & Samples

Ross Carey: Great Wall - AUDIO

Embedded audio
See details ➔
Sample Score

Sample: First page of movements 1 and 2.

See details ➔

Borrow/Hire:

To borrow items or hire parts please email SOUNZ directly at info@sounz.org.nz.

About

Written during a month-long residency in November 2005 at the Visby International Centre for Composers, in Visby on the Swedish Baltic island of Gotland, this piece was inspired by the surroundings there: the history related to its importance in the Hanseatic League and prior to that the long Viking period; and in particular the old town with its beautifully preserved encircling medieval town wall.

The piece consists of seven descriptive historical episodes, and includes two poems to be narrated by the pianist in episodes 2 and 7: ‘Clouds’ and ‘Centuries’. The vocalisations are mainly sung, hummed and whistled sounds, along with the breaths of the third section indicating the onerous task of building the wall.


Dedication note

Dedicated to Gao Ping


Contents note

  1. Prelude (Quarry)
  2. Threat
  3. Build!
  4. The Lookout at Dawn
  5. Townsfolk
  6. The Church at Bro
  7. Centuries

Text note

Poems by the composer


Performance history

14 Feb 2007: Performed by Gao Ping (piano and voice) during the Asia Pacific Festival at St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington