Flyting

Matthew Rooke

Flyting: a Concert Suite

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

Loge, hör! Lausche hieher from the Jonathan Dove/Birmingham Opera  edition of die Walkure. Wotan: Paul Carey Jones

Die Walkure (Dove Edition) Perth 6 September 2015 End Of Act II Wotan Loge Hör!

Sometimes ts just great fun to respond to a brief for a pastiche or evocation of a style.  Some recent projects for clients.  Perhaps you will be shaken and not stirred; skipping with Desplat; ready to say "honey I'm Home"; or simply stand in awe in front of a middle earth waterfall.......

Not everything has to be serious... - Film & theatre music

a Question Best Left Unanswered

Elgar Sea Pictures - orchestration for Chamber orchestra single wind plus Horn and strings. Live concert recording

Elgar Sea Pictures (Rooke reduction) 5 - The Swimmer

Ae Fond Farewell - Peter Hagen

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.

01 - Mungo's Journey(1)

Composer, Producer and Director working in opera

03 - Flyting segue into The Waterfall(1)

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