The second movement is a groove, a dance and a blast. It is a celebration of the material, the sensual, the earth. The players use their instruments sometimes as percussion and other times in their full melodic sonority. The music rolls and rushes between dances and circus acts, but despite the contrast in mood and rhythm the second movement is literally another manifestation of the true self theme. The same body, as it were, but in different clothes.

True self 2nd movement

True Self is a piano trio performed by Natasha Sachsenmeier (violin), Timothée Botbol  (cello) and Ilya Chetverikov (piano).
The title are the words of the historical Bhuddha, who proclaimed true self as one of the four noble qualities.
The first movement begins with a violin solo, - a playful pre-echo of the true self theme, which begins when the piano enters. The mood is joyful, illuminated and moving with the quality of water. As each instrument enters, the theme is continuously reiterated in a series of meditative waves of flowing counterpoint.

True Self 1st movement

Songs From Hell was a reaction to the violence and intolerance that has erupted around the world in recent years. I have freely adapted texts from the holocaust poet Dan Pagis, Buddhist writings Paul Celan and Charles Bukowsky, which describe perfectly aspects of the hell that humans create when they hate.

Azuras-Hungry Spirits

Humanbeings

Reparations

Thegeniusofthecrowd

Blackmilkofmorning

IAmEve

Gongyo is a series of prayers and recitations from the Lotus Sutra, the Buddha's last teaching. In this symphony a chorus of about 12 men and women recite excerpts from "the expedient means' chapter and the "life span"  chapter of the sutra. I have used the Japanese traslation, the liturgy of Nicherin Buddhism, (13 century Japan) based on texts which came originally from India and date from the 5th century B.C. 
Movement I Expedient means. Movement II instrumental. Movement III Life span. 
Composed by Jeremy Arden, conducted by James Longstaffe. Orchestra: Vanessa McNaught: viola, Ghislane McMullin: cello, Pete McMullin: piano, Kieth Farbairn: percussion, Lisa walker: clarinet, Robyn Elton: violin Octavia Bovey: flute. Ben Winters: Violin, Nicole Durdin: horn. The chorus: Jeremy Arden, Tony Morris, Jo Lane , Neha Dutt and Rohan Ghose, Clifford Marcus, Dai Griffthis , Rory Mcinroy

Lotus symphony

This was composed in 1997 as part of a ballet  Out of Here, commissioned by  CANDOCO dance company. The title Hat Dance came from the choreographer who devised a scene in which the performer danced and juggled multiple hats. This was one of my compositions that made use of the wonderful Schillinger method of 'distributive powers' in which a single bar of rhythm is made to yield multiple bars and voices, as if by magic!

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