Performer: Cristina Anghelescu. Recorded 2001, as part of Naresh's first CD of chamber music.

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Shades VI for solo violin

Shift, Trip. Written and performed by Zoë Martlew.
Live recording from concert at Wigmore Hall. May 2017

Published by Schott

Shift, Trip. Wigmore live 5/17

"Shift, Trip" for amplified cello with track. Wigmore Hall 2017

Commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
First performance 13th October 1996, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins, with Sarah Leonard, soprano.
Royal Festival Hall, London.

Lila

Written for contralto, flute, clarinet, horn, percussion, harp, piano, violin, 'cello, double bass.
Duration: 14 min 15 sec.

Commissioned by New Music Concerts. First performance 28th November 1993, New Music Concerts, du Maurier Theatre, Toronto, Canada.
Elizabth Turnbull, contralto, Bob Aitken conductor.
Words:  'The song that I came to sing remains unsung,' Poem no. 13 from 'Gitanjali' by Rabindranath Tagore.

Full text:
The song that I came to sing 
remains unsung to this day. 
I have spent my days in stringing 
and in unstringing my instrument.

The time has not come true, 
the words have not been rightly set; 
only there is the agony 
of wishing in my heart.

The blossom has not opened; 
only the wind is sighing by. 
I have not seen his face, 
nor have I listened to his voice; 
only I have heard his gentle footsteps 
from the road before my house.

The livelong day has passed 
in spreading his seat on the floor; 
but the lamp has not been lit 
and I cannot ask him into my house.

I live in the hope of meeting with him; 
but this meeting is not yet.

(Original text in Bengali.)

The Unsung Song

British composer of Indian origin, 1939-2018 - the first person to establish himself in the West as a composer of music in the Western classical idiom. Awarded Padma Shree in 1987 by the Indian government.  Produced over 60 pieces, ranging from chamber works to large-scale orchestral and choral works. Received eight BBC commissions. including two major Proms commissions.

The Unsung Song

Naresh Sohal

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