fave listenings of this month

in the pic: Lamonte Young

"musica assoluta" (gennaio 2023)

Piano Music

Solo Instrument

This set of pieces were written for the Cambridge New Music Ensemble's Valentine's Day Gala Concert and performed by Naomi Woo. 

14/02/2014

I - Prelude

II - Chorales

Part of a set of Bagatelles which were written for the Cambridge New Music Ensemble's Valentine's Day Gala Concert and performed by Naomi Woo. 

14/02/2014

III - Toccata - moto perpetuo

“annus novus”

bagpipes: An unknown woman practicing bagpipes in the park.
Vocals: Vocaloid Yukari
Art work: Juanita Mulder via Pixabay

この年は
おわりの年か
風冴えて

Is this the year of the end?
The wind is sparkling.

annus novus

Annus Novus

Marco Lucchi : piano, synthesizers and found sounds

2 gennaio 2023

https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/667639/

Hourglass [1]

Neu 23

010223002 Mutables

The night slowly surrenders (At the gates of dawn)

The idea for this piece came from a conversation/argument with a friend about which hymn tunes are 'bangers' (yes I'm aware how nerdy this is). I loved that we had very different but equally passionate opinions and so I decided to compose something which used two of our favourite tunes as the source material. 

The result was a light-hearted and exciting piece, radically different in tone from the original melodies, and as occasionally ludicrous as the conversation that inspired it.

For the purists, there is also a version for Organ.

Two-Tune Toccata

The 4th Movement of my Wind Trio, played in the building that it was written for (King's College Chapel). The performance was given by Rosalind Ridout (19/06/14)

Two-Tune Toccata

Christopher Mortlock