(2024)
for four string orchestras
Duration 11 minutes
Based on the opening bars of the final movement of J.S. Bach’s Johannespassion, Sov Godt (for Pål) for four string orchestras is a meditation on rest, recuperation, love and hope. It was written at a difficult time when my family has been unable to be together and when my grandson Pål has been extremely unwell – the music brings together many emotions.
Orchestra
2015
Duration: 8’45”
Scored for four clarinets, organ, piano and strings, Westron Wynde is is a contemplation derived from the Sanctus from John Sheppard’s mass of the same name. The music unfolds across three panels and depicts a vast empty landscape. Two brief extracts from Sheppard’s Sanctus can be heard as the music progresses, the first stated by the clarinets, the second, at a distance, by a string quartet.
(2010, 2016, 2023)
for orchestra (strings, flutes & piccolos)
Duration: 11’11”
In autumn is a piece for string orchestra with flutes and piccolos. It is an evocation of a woodland scene in late autumn in the pre-Appenini mountains of central Italy, specifically an area named Forca d’Acero which is a high mountain pass (1500m) on the border between Lazio and Abbruzzo: an evocative woodland landscape.
Originally written for string quartet, Mesto is a study in melancholy. Using a diatonic palette, the strings pivot around a central harmony with the upper and lower parts mirroring one another as they expand outwards from the centre.
Score and parts available for purchase or hire
2020
for solo pianoforte
Duration 5’40”
Score available on request
Version for harp and marimba also available
October 2020
Duration: 5’15”
2 clarinets in Bb, violin, violoncello, pianoforte
This is music for the spaces between breaths, for the moments when the world slows and introspection reigns. Let it wash over you, a balm for the restless soul, a refuge for the weary mind. Each note, a falling leaf, a sigh on the wind, weaving a spell of serenity around the listener. Close your eyes, and let the music carry you away on a tide of peaceful reflection to a sanctuary for the wandering mind, a haven for the restless heart. Step inside, and allow the music to cradle you in its gentle embrace.
Parts available on request
Written originally as a chamber orchestra piece to accompany the artwork of the Italo-Canadian artist Janet Bellotto in 2013, this version for string orchestra was completed in 2020.
(2013 – revised 2020)
Duration: 5’15”
Instrumentation: string orchestra (minimum 3,3,2,2,1)
Score and parts available on request.
(2020)
Solo trumpet, flute, oboe, 3 clarinets, 2 horns, tubular bell, piano and strings
Duration – 10′ circa
Score and parts available on request.
Download a sample of the score here: Ein Licht – Full Score Sample