My cover of the profound and amazing Dylan song. As relevant a cautionary tale today as ever it was back in the day.

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (cover)

Jackson Pollock

Photo from St-Martin-in-the-Fields, London.

A Baroque Bagatelle for Betsy

Music in search of the right documentary on insects...

antennae

Cab Calloway

For flute, viola, harp, piano, Chinese percussion, handbells and electric bass.

Photo: Brseč, Croatia.

zephyr

rubato

John Dowland

Appassionata

Piano: Steinway Hamburg Model O ca 1920
Guitar: Vicente Camacho (Madrid (1986)

Photo: River Colne, Colchester, England.

Four Sketches for Piano and Guitar

Performed on Steinway Spirio concert grand recorded at Curt Schwartz Studio, Sussex, England.

(For information on the Spirio: youtu.be/2kj2Oy3qkuY?si=lDc8T-yXsYT9nD0o)

Photo: Lisbon, Portugal.

Toccata

orison

Piano and prepared piano (screws).

Artwork: "Fish Image" by Paul Klee (1925, detail)

for Erik Satie

For piano, viola, cello, prepared piano (clothespin), and Japanese bell.

Kokadera

Vocal: Allen Wright
Hamburg Steinway Model O piano: Richard Fairhurst

Recorded August 2023 at Rock Creek Recording, Washington, D.C.

Song by Leonard Cohen.

Hallelujah (with Richard Fairhurst)

Two-Part Invention #6

Performed on Hamburg Steinway Model O ca 1920 (fully restored).

Two-Part Invention #7

Vocal: Allen Wright
Steinway Hamburg Model O Piano: Richard Fairhurst   (https://www.richardfairhurst.com)

Recorded August 2023, Rock Creek Recording, Washington, D.C.

Body And Soul (with Richard Fairhurst)

Photo taken at Glenstone (Potomac, Maryland).

Opuscule for Piano Quartet

broken beetle

Invocation

Thanks to El Wud for his marvelous work on this extremely rewarding collaborative project. 

For more of El Wud's brilliant musical soundscapes, please go to: https://on.soundcloud.com/NqsxN

Meditations on a butterfly flight (with El Wud)

Dedicated to Alice Ann Wayne, and the butterflies and damselflies of Costa Rica.

(Photo taken on a guided night walk in the rain forest at Raffiki Safari Lodge, Costa Rica).

flutterby

Words by Thomas Traherne, the 17th century Shropshire poet, preacher and mystic.

Voice, piano and trombone: Allen Wright.

The stained glass imagery is from the Traherne series in the Audley Chapel, Hereford Cathedral, Herefordshire, England. 

https://floatingcircle-rwa.org/2022/07/21/encounters-with-stained-glass-the-audley-chapel-hereford-cathedral/

Wonder

1) Jaunt    
2) If    
3) Reprieve

Painting by Paul Klee "The Second Siren in Alto" (detail), 1939.

Three For Monk

For piano, fretless electric bass, and Chinese bells.

Photo: Lido Key after the hurricane, Sarasota, Florida (October 8, 2024).

My Consolation

1) Foreword     2) Allegro    3) Berceuse

(Photo: Istria, Croatia)

Triptych: for trombone

Dedicated to the late great jazz trumpeter and composer Booker Little.

Composition and trombone performance: Allen Wright

Seven Vignettes for trombone and horn

Photo: Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, Florida.

Skein

Painting (detail): "Road in Italy" by Giuseppe De Nittis.

Gnossienne

Brass quintet instruments by UVI IRCAM Solo Instruments.

Photo taken at St. Laurence's, Church Stretton, Shropshire, UK (2024).

(For Mary Ruth Wright)

Chorale

Music by R. Vaughan Williams 

Trombone: Allen Wright
Steinway Model O Piano (ca 1920): Enid Boeding

1) Adagio ("Lovely on the Water")
2) Andante Sostenuto ("Spurn Point")
3) Larghetto ("Van Diemen's Land")
4) Lento ("She Borrowed Some of Her Mother's Gold")
5) Andante Tranquillo ("The Lady and the Dragoon")
6 Allegro Vivace ("As I walked over London Bridge")

Six Studies In English Folksong (R. Vaughan Williams)

To the memory of my dear friend Robin Ambrose, graphic artist extraordinaire.

(Trombone and piano: Allen Wright).

For Robin

Painting (detail): The Glory of Kings (Erol Akyavas, 1959)

Zelkova

Rhapsody

Thanks for listening: I am always very grateful for your open ears and minds.

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