String Quartets

Third and last movement of the most recent quartet for A Congeries. All titles are quotes from Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale'.

'Fled is that music: —Do I wake or sleep?' Mvt3: 'I have been half in love with easeful Death'

1st movement completed 20 Aug 2021. The somewhat subdued ending points toward the 2nd mvt, which incorporates a plaintive (and famous) Irish song from Donegal.

String Quartet 2 ('From Ireland'); Mvt. 1 'Anamúil' (Lively) (Completed)

This second movement of 'String Quartet 2' includes 3 complete iterations of the tune from Donegal known as 'She Moved Through the Fair,' as well as variations and echoes of the tune in other passages.

String Quartet 2 ('From Ireland'), Mvt 2, 'Cinniúnach' (Tragic) (Completed)

String Quartet 3: 'Scéalta cois Tine', Mvt 3: 'Scéal Grianmhar' (A Cheerful Tale)

My performance of THE Fantasie-Impromptu has been removed because of an erroneous copyright claim. so I improvised this one to take it's place for a while, hoping that they'll reinstate my version of Chopin's masterpiece. 

Fantasy Impromptu

Darkest Green is an original piano composition from my project Butterflies, which has nothing to do with their aesthetics but rather their symbolism - exploring themes of transformation, emergence, inner metamorphosis.

This piece explores the hidden beauty of change, and the fragile power of transcendence, as it moves through shadows and feelings of uncertainty, with fluttering textures and expansive sweeps that reflect the tension between darkness and the fertile possibility of becoming.

Thank you for listening — I hope this piece says something that is relevant to you.

Darkest Green

Trying to return to a bit of writing. 

This was a work in progress... occasionally!     Piece started  20-ish years ago & picked up (very) intermittently since.  Written with children's media in mind.    Not quite finished compositionally, dynamic interest incomplete & unmixed. 

Don't have the technical know-how to create a good production even if I do ever get to the point where I think the notes are right!  Still ambivalent re: whether it's worth persisting or if I should simply drop it.    Advice appreciated.

the tin soldier and the ballerina scoring 16 progress

On spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/61IzMVyODlZuthWLmWN7oM?si=d029eaf7623a4d9a

I wanted to capture a piece of my life in New York, blending hip hop, Latin, brasshouse, salsa, and jazz, all wrapped in my signature fantasy orchestral style. This one was pure joy to make, maybe the most fun I’ve ever had writing music, and I hope that energy comes through when you listen.

A Fantasy in the Bronx

A live performance of Over The Rainbow (Arlen, Harburg, 1939)and Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell, 1967) with some comments on sexism in music, beforehand. Recorded live at South Hill Park arts centre, Bracknell on a very hot Midsummer night. Please excuse the background noises, we had to have the windows open on this very hot and wonderful evening, and children were still playing in the park....lovely 
; )

OverTheRainbow/BothSidesNow Live

A minor key improvisation on Happy Birthday. One of many different arrangements of Happy Birthday I have been recording for my publisher De Wolfe Music

Sad Happy Birthday Classical Piano Improvisation

An OTT 'romantic' piano improvisation on Happy Birthday

OTTPianoHappyBirthday

This clip of a BBC radio broadcast from 45 years ago is my first airing on radio from a concert on the Christie organ of the Astra cinema, Llandudno. Immediately after the interview, Roy Bently, then the managing director of the Hutchinson Cinema group offered me the job of accompanying the experimental revival of daytime screenings of silent movies they were doing at the Astra to entertain the holidaymakers on rainy days during the summer season! Thus this was my first paid job composing and improvising music for movies back in the early 70's. The Christie was a British made theatre organ constructed by the highly regarded Hill Norman and Beard pipe organ company. It was designed to compete with the American Wurlitzer being imported into UK cinemas in the 1920's by none other than my publisher, De Wolfe! I first heard these instruments on my old 78 rpm wind up record player and was absolutely entranced at the age of four by the amazing sounds they could produce. Little did I know I would be playing the same instruments within 5 years. If you ever get a chance please have a listen my great hero Sidney Torch playing Orient Express on the Christie of the Regal Edmonton. I never met Sidney Torch but he was a great influence. Not only was he a fellow composer writing for De Wolfe, it was his own instrument at the Regal where I first played the cinema organ ; )
Recording and interview by Alan Ashton
http://www.organfax.co.uk/players/andyquin/

First Radio Broadcast 1972

A segue of a number of my compositions for period dramas and romance published by De Wolfe Music, mostly featuring orchestral strings and piano. It has been my great pleasure and privilege to conduct and work with the finest UK musicians from the very best orchestras including The London Telefilmonic. LSO, RPO, BBC Concert Orchestra and I am just about keeping up on piano on some of the tracks ; ) Unlike many film composers I do all my own orchestral scoring and arrangements.

Period Drama Romance

Having been much inspired by very enjoyable trip with my family to Disney Epcot, I wanted to write a track that used all my skills learnt from influences such as World Music and Earth Wind and Fire, through Orchestral and band Arranging, playing Drums and African Percussion. to playing the concert harp! 'Paradise World Party' is a happy track and was so much fun to record. Thanks to all the wonderful musicians/choirs/vocalists and most of all thanks my old colleague Levine Andrade who sadly died just a few months ago. I was busy with producing so Levine MD'd for me and kept all those musicians in order! Thanks so much for your talent and skill Levine, I hope you are enjoying that world music party in paradise my old friend ; )

0375: Children's Magical World

Paradise World Party 1 (Full)

The first movement is completed. The title and titles for each movement are lines from Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale'.

'Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep?' Mvt. 1: 'And with thee fade away into the forest dim'

String Quartet, Mvt. 2. The overall title and the movement titles are quotations from Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale.'

'Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep?' Mvt2: 'O for a beaker full of the warm South' (Completed)

R.A. Moulds studied music at the University of Southern Mississippi.

String Quartet 3: 'Scéalta cois Tine', Mvt 3: 'Scéal Grianmhar' (A Cheerful Tale)

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