Gloup Fishermen’s Memorial photographed by Graham Titus, Margaret Cable, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk The Gloup disaster of July 1881 claimed the lives of fifty-eight men when a sudden storm rose out of a peaceful sky. This was a blow from which the community of Gloup, Yell, Shetland never recovered. In 1881 the shores of the sea inlet Gloup Voe were well inhabited on both sides. In 1989 when Beyond the Far Haaf was written there were only four households, all on the east side of the voe. While he was writing the piece, DW lived eight miles from Gloup and his nearest neighbours were descended from families involved in the disaster. |
The Snow Queen (libretto by Kevin Ireland) Teresa Cahill, Elizabeth Bainbridge with The London Sinfonietta, conducted by Howard Williams
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Sonata Fantasia Rohan de Saram (cello) Click here for a PDF of the score It may seem a little whimsical to have written such a backward looking ‘almost in C minor’ piece in 2001 for the cellist for whom Berio was writing his last sequenza and who a few years before had been the cellist in the premiere of Stockhausen’s ‘helicopter quartet’. Nevertheless Rohan & Druvi took it seriously and were wonderfully effective in displaying the internal relationships of the piece, while Rohan’s cello really sang. |
A Full Moon in March Stephen Varcoe, Linda Hirst, Twentieth Century Ensemble, conductor Edwin Roxburgh |
Prelude to Act 3 of Jack’s Engagement BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Jerzy Maksymiuk |
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String Quartet No 4 (1 minute excerpt) String Quartet No 5 (final minute) String Quartet No.6 Bingham String Quartet |
Piano Sonata (21/2 minute excerpt) Graeme McNaught Cello Concerto no. 1 Ross Pople / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Norman Del Mar |
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e-mails from Palestine Recording of the live 1st performance in 2010 Emily White (vocals, trombone, alto sackbut, violin & percussion) Click on the cover picture to open a PDF of a programme note with the full sung and spoken words in a new tab
Clarinet Quintet (first two movements) Shinobu Miki / Saltire Quartet String Quartet No 7Recording of the 1st performance
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Variations for Cello and Orchestra (complete) Ross Pople, London Festival Orchestra, conductor Edwin Roxburgh Dreaming of a Distant Love (A two minute miniature instrumental paraphrase of my opera Cupid & Psyche) FourSight Video Stream of premiere on 5 November 2017 including Q & A with the audience Rohan de Saram (Cello) Suren de Saram (Percussion) Kausikan Rajeshkumar (Piano)
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