A solo cello suite dedicated to J.S. Bach.

(Digital audio mockup created with Dorico and NotePerformer3.)

I. Praeludium
II. Allemande
III. Rigaudon
IV. Sarabande
Va. Bourrée I
Vb. Bourrée II
VI. Tempo di gavotta
VII. Gigue
VIII. Postludium

Cello Suite, R. 11: Vb. Bourrée II

This tuning fork was a present from Ludwig Van Beethoven to George Polgreen Bridgetower. See http://www.bl.uk/black-europeans/articles/george-polgreen-bridgetower for more information.

Beethoven's tuning fork

© Will Bedford 2018
Buy on Bandcamp - https://willbedford.bandcamp.com/track/embrace

Embrace

This piece is the second set of string quartet miniatures that I have composed inspired by words from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. This project by John Koenig attempts to encapsulate familiar but yet unnamed experiences by creating new words to describe them. About the project, Koenig writes:

"I think the act of naming something implies, very simply, that you’re not alone. We give names to things so we can talk about them. Once there’s a word for an experience, it feels contained somehow — and the container has a handle, which makes it much easier to pick up and pass around." 


The four words I chose for this set of miniatures are:

opia (0:00): the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

chrysalism (1:11): the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm, listening to waves of rain pattering against the roof like an argument upstairs, whose muffled words are unintelligible but whose crackling release of built-up tension you understand perfectly.

morii (5:23): the desire to capture a fleeting experience.

ambedo (6:47): a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details  — raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee — briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.

Excerpts from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows are used with the permission of John Koenig.

Recorded by the Daedalus Quartet in April 2019.

Daedalus Quartet

words, contained - set ii, for string quartet

Official demos for our Dulciano sample library for Kontakt - https://fracturesounds.com/product/dulciano/

The Hidden Kingdom - Will Bedford - Dulciano

Written for Universal Production Music's album 'Victorious'. 

Published as 'Breaking Down Barriers'.

Available to license here - https://www.universalproductionmusic.com/en-gb/search?vtag=1&vwave=1&vdesc=1&fq=composerIds:%2821870%29

Cascade

Composed for Universal Prodcution Music's 'Earth Day' album.

Watch the DAW screencast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxqiKTCX3fI

Available to license at https://www.universalproductionmusic.com/en-gb/search?vtag=1&vwave=1&vdesc=1&fq=composerIds:%2821870%29

As One

Composer. Hailed as “an astonishing composing talent” (Apple Music), Rodrigo Ruiz regularly receives commissions from leading musicians, ensembles and institutions around the world looking for “unabashedly tonal” and “well-crafted [music]” (BBC Music Magazine). His works are published by Universal Edition and recorded by Signum Classics. Behold the Stars (2021), his latest album, surpassed 600,000 streams, reached the Billboard Charts, iTunes No. 2 best-sellers and Apple’s Top 10 Albums of the Month.