Compositions by Coreen Morsink

by Coreen Morsink
cello: Sigrid Vandenbogaerde

Finalist at the 2014 Sorodha Composition Competition

Conversations with a Rose

First Two movements of "Fairy Tales for Princess Katerina" composed and played by Coreen Morsink
Movement 1: Moonlight, Movement 2: Magic Forest.  For complete recording listen/purchase at: http://coreenmorsink.bandcamp.com/track/fairy-tales-for-princess-katerina

Fairy Tales For Princess Katerina By Coreen Morsink, First And Second Movement

erosion for solo violin composed by Coreen Morsink, live recording by Mizuka Yamamoto, Athens Greece.  Recording converted to A=432.  

erosion for solo violin, by Coreen Morsink played by Mizuka Yamamoto, violin

No. 2,3,4 and 10 from the 12-1 Preludes by Coreen Morsink.  These particular preludes use the strings of the piano which have been altered by putting blu-tak to make certain strings a quarter-tone lower (approximately!) The full set of preludes can be bought at http://demerararecords.com/ or heard/watched at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DjF13UTWEA Thank you for listening! 

12 - 1 Preludes For Prepared Piano 2,3,4 And 10 By Coreen Morsink

Love Unbeaten by Coreen Morsink - Χορικό Έρωτα ανίκητε from Sophocles' Antigone as part of The Theban Plays directed by Elias Malandris. Recording by the St. Catherine's British School Greek Tragedy Chorus, converted here to 432hz.  Photo credit to Elias Malandris. 

An approximate English translation of the modern Greek text: 
Love Unbeaten in Battle, by Sophocles, from Antigone translated by C. Morsink 
Love, unbeaten in battle, You mark with an embroidered arrow of beauty. 
You that is love, that touches the soft cheeks of young girls from the oceans you stride and poke into gardens and houses, no one from you, not even God is spared, not even the ordinary mortal, but whomsoever you touch is lost.

Love Unbeaten Χορικό Έρωτα ανίκητε converted to Α=432hz by Coreen Morsink

This version of "Andromache's Recitativo, Aria and Subtext" has been altered using Audacity programme to A=432hz.  The sound quality is slightly less nice than the original which Carla Rees recorded at standard A=440hz.  Many thanks to Carla Rees for her open-mindedness about pitch, frequency and microtones! This piece would not have existed without her fabulous collaboration and help with fingerings and techniques for this rare instrument.  

Permission to use the text from the play "Andromache" by Euripides translated by Philip Vellacott has been given by ‘The Society of Authors as the literary representative of the Estate of Philip Vellacott’.  Score available for purchase at http://www.tetractys.co.uk/photo_10848381.html

Andromache, by C. Morsink, extract converted to A=432hz, played by Carla Rees

Coreen Morsink is a Canadian/Greek composer focusing on music springing from ancient Greek sources as well as unusual tuning systems. Her pieces use compositional techniques which combine old and new with explorations into microtonality, multiphonics and extended techniques.