Flyting

A spikey, punchy duet for piano and percussion (marimba and drum kit)from Flyting all about Scotland's love affair with sugar.  it was based on my reminiscences of allowing my eldest son drink Irn Bru for the first time - or rather what happened once the sugar and chemicals hit his blood stream!

. Sugar Dance 2013

A copy of the Berwick Festival Opera Dido and Aeneas Sampler for MP3 Download

Dido And Aeneas MP3 Sampler Berwick Fest

Sibelius sound file of arrangement of Bernard Herrmann's masterpiece - Pyscho - for my favourite Sax Quartet - Sax Ecosse

Pyscho Theme B Herrmann Arr For Sax Quartet Matthew Rooke 1 August 2014

updated VSL Special edition orchestra rendering of piece for Bass Clarinet and Strings using VI instruments Pro humanizer

An A Craw Can Sing An Aw (VSL)

Another orchestrating test to see what would happen if Kraftwerk had come about 200 years earlier and had been in Dusseldorf in 1818 when the Dusseldorf Symphony orchestra was founded.  So I have orchestrated Kraftwerk's synth music orchestra emulation  to be an orchestra for an orchestra pretending to be a synth played back by a synthetic orchestra with a sampler.......

OrchestKraftwerk Tour De France - Ein klassisches Orchester Transkription

Trio for Harp, Flute and Viola.  Complete work, Sibelius/VSL rendering.  approx. 10 minutes long.  A companion piece for Debussy trio. Streaming friendly mp3 version

Trio for Harp, Flute And Viola Complete Work

This is the second of four movements from the Flyting Concert Suite.  This piece starts with an elegy for Low D Scots Whistle, followed by a a duet for Soprano and Bass with strings and, piano, celeste and percussion and is an imagining of the final moments of the life of the early 19th century explorer, Mungo Park's life.

02 - At Boussa Falls(1)

This is the third and forth and final movement from the Flyting Concert Suite. Flyting takes its name from of 16th century performance poetry, akin to modern rap. Flyting as a movement itself is an instrumental work for the whole orchestra but featuring Scots low D whistle which segues into a setting of William Soutar's poem, "The Waterfall" 

03 - Flyting segue into The Waterfall(1)

This is the first of four movements for the Flyting Concert Suite. The piece is about Mungo Park, the early 19th century Scottish African explorer, and sets his words drawn from his journals and letters home.

Flyting

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