Time: 7:30 PM Date: 01/11/05 Location: CCA Piano Concert |
Other Information: Music for One and Two Pianos Peter Crump - Three Roses Three Roses is dedicated to my wife Mary.
Clement Jewitt - (details to follow)
Raymond Head - Gloriae Primordium Gloriae Primordium was written in 1997 and first performed by the composer at the Leominster Festival in the same year. Since that time the work has been revised and in the process various aspects of the piece have been expanded. Gloriae Primordium means "in anticipation of the awakening of the spirit". It is at once very expressive and almost dynamically brutal; during the course of the last section the piece becomes ecstatic before leading to a final evanescence.
Kenneth Gange - (details to follow)
Rosemary Duxbury - On Wings of Light Composed in 1995, On Wings of Light received its world premiere in Geneva at the Institut Jacques-Dalcroze, and its British premiere at the Fraser Noble Hall, University of Leicester, in 1998, performed by Swiss pianist Patricia Siffert to whom the piece is dedicated.
Part Two - Music for Two Pianos
Andrew Downes - Sonata for Two Pianos Specially commissioned by Joseph Weingarten and Margaret Newman for their concerts in aid of the Interdenominational Society for Russian Jewry. First performed by them on July l2th 1987 in the Sir Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham. Numerous performances of this work have since taken place. The Sonata was first performed in Israel by Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir in January 1989 in the Israel Philharmonic Guest House, Tel Aviv, in a concert with members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, celebrating the return to Israel of the Refusnik, Elena Keiss-Kuna. The work was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 by Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir in 1990, as part of a broadcast recital which they gave in the Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham. The Duo Scaramouche have played the work at several venues throughout Europe, including the Salle des Arts, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris; on French Radio - France Musique; and on Italian Television in a full length programme featuring an interview with the composer.
Robert Ramskill - 3 Bagatelles for 2 Pianos 1) Below Freezing. (Im sorry to say I cant remember now the reason for this title).
2) La Mezquita de Cordoba. (This piece turned out to have a Spanish flavour so I named it after one of my favourite pieces of Spanish architecture, the Cathedral in Cordoba, originally built as a mosque, or mezquita, by the Moorish rulers of Andalucia in the middle ages).
3) O Frabjous Day. (As this was about as exuberant and cheerful piece as I can imagine writing I used this phrase from Lewis Carrolls Jabberwocky. It expresses a mood of great jubilation that I thought was appropriate).
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