"Sinfonietta" was completed in April 2021. The work is scored for Wind Septet (consisting of Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, and Horn), Timpani, and String Orchestra.

This recording was mastered by eMastered: eMastered.com/profile/robtjbrooks

The score and parts will be available soon from Creative Spirit Online.

"Sinfonietta" is roughly based on material from the composer's "Piano Sonata No. 6" and "Passacaglia", two works originally conceived and composed as part of one multi-movement work for piano.

Sinfonietta for Wind Septet, Timpani, and String Orchestra (mastered by eMastered.com)

Plango - A Cure Lament (2021), Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for International Women's Day. Nazan Fikret (Soprano) and Rebecca Cohen (Piano). Poem by Jo Brandon

Song For My Children (2018), From 'Songs For Marvellous'. Nazan Fikret (Soprano) and Rebecca Cohen (Piano).

Lamplight (2008). Sarah Wallcook (Mezzo) and Julia Cobby (Piano). Poem by May Wedderburn Cannan

Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep (2014)From 'Songs For Marvellous'. Performed by SSA group, Carvetii Trio. Poem by Mary Elizabeth Frye

Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep (2014)

A WORLD UNFINISHED is modeled after the orchestral tone poems of Richard Strauss. The single-movement, continuously evolving composition is divided into two equal parts, each of which is comprised of two main sections, in total referencing truncated, highly compressed symphonic movements.
PART 1: Introduction Scherzo
PART 2: Adagio Klezmer Rondo
While there is no specific “story” behind the music, there is an extra-musical philosophical theme: the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World). To Jews, humanity was given an incomplete, broken world; it is our obligation to do what we can to reduce suffering, hatred and despair.

A WORLD UNFINISHED

Recorded at AIR Studios London (January 2022)
Mixed/Mastered: Pablo Schuller

Cue based on a scene from Chapter 37 of Madeline Miller's novel, Song of Achilles

Song of Achilles

Three Romances for Orchestra
Composed between July-October 2023.

1. I lie here thinking of you [0:00]
2. I see a wild civility [4:59]
3.  When I die, I want your hands on my eyes [11:11]

Composed as a sequel to my Three Instances for Orchestra, the difference between these pieces and its predecessor is exactly in the title (despite the formal similarities: a moderately paced first movement, a fast second movement and a slow third). The Instances are more abstract in their content, besides being composed for a smaller orchestra. The Romances are more explicitly "amoureux", love-struck. 

I preface each movement with a line from a love poem. The first movement, based on "Love Song" by William Carlos Williams, is a yearning address from one lover to another separated by a great distance. The second, from "Delight in Disorder" by Robert Herrick, highlights the beauty of imperfection. The third movement, inspired by Pablo Neruda, brings the cycle to a full circle with death and acceptance.

Love Song – William Carlos Williams
I lie here thinking of you:—
 
the stain of love
is upon the world!
Yellow, yellow, yellow
it eats into the leaves,
smears with saffron
the horned branches that lean
heavily
against a smooth purple sky!
There is no light
only a honey-thick stain
that drips from leaf to leaf
and limb to limb
spoiling the colors
of the whole world—
 
you far off there under
the wine-red selvage of the west!


Delight in Disorder – Robert Herrick 

A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness;
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction;
An erring lace, which here and there
Enthrals the crimson stomacher;
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribands to flow confusedly;
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat;
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility:
Do more bewitch me, than when art
Is too precise in every part.


When I die, I want your hands on my eyes – Pablo Neruda 

When I die, I want your hands on my eyes.
I want the light and wheat of your beloved hands to pass their freshness over me once more.
I want to feel the softness that changed my destiny.

I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep.
I want your ears still to hear the wind, I want you to sniff the sea's aroma that we loved together,
to continue to walk on the sand we walk on.

I want what I love to continue to live,
and you whom I love and sang above everything else.
to continue to flourish, full-flowered.

So that you can reach everything my love directs you to.
So that my shadow can travel along in your hair,
so that everything can learn the reason for my song.

Three Romances for Orchestra (2023)

String Quartet No. 7 - Finale

Becoming a Redwood (to Dana Gioia's poetry) with soloist Thomas Cooley

Tyson J. Davis (b. 2000): String Quartet No.1 (2017)

1. Moderate
2. Agitated

Performed by the Attacca Quartet

String Quartet No.1

Performed by the University of Louisville orchestra in November, 2017

Tidal Rhythms - University of Louisville

I couldn't end 2019 without celebrating one of my most masterful arrangements of the year. Piemontesina is inspired by the Italian song "Piemontesina" made famous in Piedmont, Italy. This was originally written as a demo for a film set in that region, but now it's taken on a life of its own. Enjoy this orchestral work which tells a story of bliss, humor and mystery in a distant land, not too far away.

Piemontesina

Lee III: Sukkot Through Orion's Nebula (November 2019)

Composer-conductor based in the lower Hudson Valley region of New York whose music has been played by several major orchestras and chamber groups in America. Scott has also held directorships with numerous orchestras, chorales and concert bands in the greater New York metropolitan area.

String Quartet No. 7 - Finale

K. Scott

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