Various Compositions

Live performance at the Principles of Music Composing Conference: Recorded in the Karosas Hall, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius. November 19th, 2021.

Kate Ryder (prepared piano) and RR (violin)

No IV in my on-going series of solo violin Caprices, premiered here by the amazing violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved.
Scores of numbers I - VII available from United Muisc Publishing, Ltd.
https://ump.co.uk/composer/roger-redgate/

Caprice IV for solo violin: Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin)

This is a  recent live recording of my Caprices, 5, 6, 7, and 8 performed by the brilliant Peter Sheppard Skaerved on a violin by Girolamo Amati 1629.

Recorded live at the George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths, University of London. March 2nd 2023
Engineer: Colin Still (Optic Nerve)
Photo by Richatd Bram

Caprices 5, 6, 7 and 8: Peter Sheppard Skaerved Violin

An amazing studio recording of TAG made recently (2023) by Salim Javaid (sax) and Mauricio Galeano (guitar).

TAG (soprano sax/guitar): Salim Javaid and Mauricio Galeano.

Disjecta for solo 10 string guitar
Live performance by Stefan Östersjö
October 24th, 2014, London

Disjecta (solo 10 string guitar) Stefan Östersjö

This is condensed sampler mix of a forthcoming CD, Single Combat.
Single Combat consists of 77 sonic splinters, designed to be loud and fragmented and to be played using shuffle mode in your CD/mp3 player or phone/tablet/laptop. 
Recorded in Canterbury, 18th July 2014
Soon to be released on Migro records: http://migrorecords.com/

Single Combat (sampler) Roger Redgate (electric violin) Matthew Wright (turntable/laptop)

This is the first performance of my String Quartet No 4 given by the Kreutzer String Quartet (Peter Sheppard Skærved, Mihailo Trandafilovski (violins), Morgan Goff (viola)Neil Heyde (cello) at Wilton's Music Hall on June 16th, 2015.
This is the first 3 movements of a projected 6 movement work, based on the Webern Bagatelles.
http://www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2009/11/kreutzer-quartet/

String Quartet No 4 (Kreutzer Quartet)

This is an amazing new recording of Graffiti by Rico Gubler, from his new album, which also includes his own compositions and works by Denisov and Donatoni.
Musiques Suisses MGB CTS-M 148
https://www.musiques-suisses.ch/en/Rico-Gubler/Rico-Gubler-als-Interpret-und-Komponist-%281972%29/id/682

Graffiti - Rico Gubler

This is an amazing live recording of +R for solo clarinet performed by Gretchen Dunsmore of ensemble 175 East, Hopetwon Alpha, Auckland, New Zealand.

+R for solo clarinet: Gretchen Dunsmore, clarinet

This is a recording from 2006 of Aur(or)a which is an improvised work conceived using sofware by Michael Young. The violin part is improvised and the disklavier responses controlled by Michael's Max/MSP programme.
This was a live performance as part of the Live Algorithms for Music Conference at Goldsmiths.

Aur(o)ra:  Roger Redgate (violin)/ Disklavier

Performance with Kate Ryder playing Andrew McPherson's Magnetic Resonator Piano and Alice Eldridge on her feedback cello.
Performance at the Whitechapel Gallery as part of the Intersections 2016: Magnetic Attactions.

RR (violin/FX) with Kate Ryder (magnetic resonator piano) Alice Eldridge (feedback cello)

A recording from the Horse Improvised Music Club series at Iklectik ArtLab, London. 
https://horseimprovclub.wordpress.com/

Roger Redgate (violin/FX pedal)
Adam Bohman (amplified objects)
Kate Ryder (prepared piano) 
Sue Lynch (sax and flute)

Horse Improv Music Club
live at IKLECTIK, London
Recorded and mixed by Saint Austral Sound.
Recorded on September 12th 2017.

Live at IKLECTIK12 Sept 2017

RR (violin/FX) with Adam Bohman (objects) Kate Ryder (prepared piano) and Sue Lynch (sax/flute)

A recent performance by the London Improvisers Orchestra at Iklectik, London: Conduction by Steve Beresford and featuring Roger Redgate, Alan Tomlinson, Dave Tucker, Steve Potter, Adrian Northover
Adam Bohman, Susanna Ferrar, Neil Metcalfe and others.
http://www.londonimprovisersorchestra.co.uk
Recorded and mixed by Saint Austral Sound.
Recorded on February 4th 2018

Live at IKLECTIK, Feb 2018

London Improvisers Orchestra (RR violin/Steve Bresford conduction)

This was the first British performance of Incipits recorded live at the ICA London in 1997 and recorded by the BBC.
Roger Redgate (conductor)
Garth Knox (viola)
Julian Warburton (percussion)
Ensemble Exposé

Brian Ferneyhough  Incipits (Roger Redgate conductor)

Black Icons for solo cello and ensemble.
Commissioned by the European Commission for the festival Europe through the Eyes of Russians, Russia through the Eyes Europeans
First Performance: Rakhmaninov Hall, Moscow Conservatoire, Moscow 19th April 2011. Alexander Ivaskin (cello), Igor Dronov (conductor) The Studio for New Music Ensemble.

Performers:
Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Igor Dronov (conductor), Ensemble of the Studio for New Music, Moscow Conservatory.

Available on the CD Alexander Ivashkin plays Gubaidulina, Tarnopolski & Redgate
Alma Classics CD Alma 5032
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/plays-gubaidulina-tarnpolski/id744627581

Black Icons (solo cello and small ens)

String Quartet No 3: Arditti String Quartet
Commissioned by the BBC
Published by United Music Publishers, London

Roger Redgate: String Quartet no 3 (Arditti Quartet)

Oboe Quintet: Christopher Redgate (oboe), Kreutzer String Quartet
Available on Greatest Hits of All Time, Metier (MSV 28513)
http://www.divine-art.co.uk/CD/28513info.htm

Oboe Quintet Christopher Redgate/Kreutzer Quartet

Pas au-dela for solo piano: Nicolas Hodges (piano)
Available on 'Works for solo piano: Roger Redgate and James Clarke
http://www.covielloclassics.de/index.php/catalogue/medium_liste_en/CD/search/redgate.html

Pas au-dela (solo piano)Nicolas Hodges

Pierrot on the Stage of Desire for small ensemble: Ensemble 21 New York, Jeffry Milarsky (conductor)

Pierrot on the Stage of Desire (small ens) Ensemble 21 New York/Jeffry Milarsky

Concerto for Improvising soloist and 2 Ensembles.
Commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with funds provided by the Britten-Pears Foundation.

Performers:
Soloist: Christopher Redgate (oboe)
Ensemble 1: (improvised): Christopher Redgate (oboe), Matthew Wright (tuntables), Mark Knoop (piano)
Ensemble 2: (notated) Ensemble Exposé
Director: Roger Redgate 

The first performance of this work was given at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Bates Mill.
November 21st 2009. This recording was given by the same performers at The Warehouse, London one week later.

There are two studio recorded versions of the work available on CD Metier msv 77204

Concerto for Improvising soloist and 2 ensembles: London Version- LIve

First performance by the Arditti Quartet, Darmstadt 1984
Recording: Südwestfunks, Germany
Published by Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris

Roger Redgate: String Quartet No 1 (Arditti Quartet)

First Performance by the Arditti Quartet, Venice Biennale 1985
Recording RAI Italy
Published by Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris

Roger Redgate: String Quartet No 2 (Arditti Quartet)

Performed by Ryan Muncy
Northwestern University 2008
Published by Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris

Roger Redgate: Graffiti (solo soprano sax) Ryan Muncy

This is the lateset in a series of Caprices I have been writing for the wonderful violinst Peter Sheppard Skærved. Each Caprice focuses on a specific aspect of violin technique - this one left hand pizzicato!
His performances are truly virtuosic!

Caprice VI (2020) for solo violin: Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin)

This is an exciting recent performance of Black Icons for solo cello and ensemble, given by Olga Galochkina (cello) and the Studio for New Music, Moscow, conducted by Igor Dronov in the  Rakhmaninov Hall, Moscow Conservatoire.

Black Icons for solo cello and ensemble: Live, Moscow, Feb 2020

Roger Redgate is a composer, conductor and improviser. He graduated at the Royal College of Music, where he won prizes for composition, violin performance, harmony and counterpoint, studying composition with Edwin Roxburgh and electronic music with Lawrence Casserley. A DAAD scholarship enabled him to study with Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber in Freiburg. From 1989 to 1992 he was Northern Arts Composer Fellow, he has lectured at Durham and Newcastle Universities. He was invited as guest composer and conductor at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992 and 1994 where he received the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis for composition. He is conductor and artistic director of Ensemble Exposé, with whom he has performed at many European festivals and on BBC Radio 3 and recently released a CD of music by Brian Ferneyhough.  He has worked in the fields of jazz, improvised music, film and television (including programmes for the BBC and Channel 4), and performance art. His compositions have been performed extensively throughout Europe, Australia and the USA and he has received commissions from the BBC, the French Ministry of Culture, the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, The Huddersfield Festival, the Venice Biennale and Ensemble 21 New York. He has published articles on music and culture, the music of Brian Ferneyhough and Michael Finnissy, including a chapter in the book Uncommon Ground: The Music of Michael Finnissy.  He is professor of Composition at Goldsmiths, University of London.
CD recordings of his works are available on the Coviello, Oboe Classics, NMC, Metier and Edition Zeitklang labels and further recordings are in preparation due for release on the Metier and NMC labels. His compositions are published by Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris, United Music Publishing, London and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

Selected Compositions:
United Music Publishers, London
String Quartet no 4
Sgrafitto (solo flute)
Runa (19 division solo trumpet)
Black Icons (solo cello and ensemble).
ST-X-t (string quartet and turntables).
Tehom (bass clt, tbn, vc)
Concerto for Improvising Soloist and Two Ensembles
TAG (soprano sax and guitar)
String Quartet No 3
monk (solo piano)
Labyrinths (prepared piano and harpsichord/clavichord)
Koan (prepared piano, toy piano and music box)
Residua  (solo harpsichord)
Disjecta (solo 10 string guitar)	
Quintet for Oboe and Strings
mirlitonnades (soprano and piano)
ruins true refuge (solo double bass)
Atemkristall (amplified quarter-tone flute)
		
Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris:

Pierrot on the Stage of Desire  (small ensemble)
Vers-Glas  (14 amplified voices): 
Celan Songs (soprano and small ensemble)
Graffiti (soprano saxophone)
Feu la Cendre (solo cello)
Beuys (solo piano)
+R (solo clarinet)
Inventio (soprano sax/ensemble): 	
Pas au-dela (solo piano)
Eperons (oboe and percussion)
Eidos (solo piano)
String Quartet No 2 
…of torn Pathways (violin/ 2 percussionist)
Eos (clarinet and piano)
String Quartet No 1 
Ausgangspunkte  (solo oboe)
Genoi Hoios Essi  (solo piano)

The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
trace- arc écart (solo piano)

Roger Redgate

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