W.Fr.Bach-Sonata F-dur,2p.Larghetto espressivo

Fr.Poulenc Concerto d-moll I

Cloud song

Twilight

Gyroscope

Anthems recorded live at the Candlemas carol service at All Saints' Hockerill, Bishop's Stortford on Sunday 31st January 2016

Baptism of Christ. Words from ‘Common Worship’; Music: Andrew March

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This work for bass clarinet and string quartet was commissioned by clarinetist Bruce Belton, who premiered the work at the Golden Gate Players Chamber Music Festival in 2017.

Sheet music available from Alea Publishing: http://www.bassclarinet.org/alea/ALEA1178.html

Dan Pinkston: All That Remains

A Stirring in the Heavenlies (2000)
This is a through-composed piece in five tentative sections commissioned by the Worshipful Company of Musicians for their quincentenary in the year 2000. The piece is scored for full symphony orchestra, and was first performed (in an abridged form) by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican at the end of the year 2000.  This performance was not recorded.  The work concerns itself with the innate desire of man to travel and explore terra firma as well as the great expanse of the sky and heavens.  The theme of transportation; intrinsic to the desire for an understanding of the plateaux of existence and levels of consciousness, is strongly portrayed in the opening of this piece. An extended build-up through the gathering of material inside a framework of a constant tempo gives the illusion of accelerando as achieved by rhythmic diminution of the underlying pulse material.   	
Whilst no particular programmatic sequence should be attributed to the work, it is reasonable to say that the orchestra has been used to evoke space and the fluxation of celestial bodies within space; dilations, contractions, sometimes fast and volatile, sometimes slow like nebula.  Cross-tessitura gestures in the orchestra contrast the various forms of movement suggested by an array of emotional and physical ‘stirring’ - both in the natural and the spiritual.   Orchestral contrary motion is utilised as the metamorphosis of time and space; where edges and boundaries are morphed and the transmutation of matter, solids, liquids, enable the prerequisite disembodiment for transcendence to behold the true phenomenon of an ethereal firmament. At the heart of the piece, like a dead star, as though in a time-capsule, there is an episode recalling the distant echo of the early days of planetary speculation.

About this Recording:
"A Stirring in the Heavenlies" was recorded in its full form in the Ukraine in 2005 by ERM Media label for Volume 7 of their Cd-series: "Masterworks of the New Era". The orchestra was the Kiev Philharmonic with the late award-winning composer/conductor Robert Ian Winstin.  Volume 7, was released on 28th November 2005.

Masterworks of the New Era Vol 7

A Stirring in the Heavenlies

Renewing the Myth, for alto saxophone and piano, by Marilyn Shrude

Andrew March was the winner of the first Masterprize International Composing Competition in 1998 with his orchestral piece Marine - à travers les arbres. He was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, in November 1973. In 1992 he was accepted at the Royal College of Music to study composition with Jeremy Dale Roberts, graduating in 1996.

A Stirring in the Heavenlies

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