Music composed by Sarah Llewellyn for A Tale of Two Cities, Chung Ying Theatre.
These are extracts taken from a  live recording from a show. 
Performances in Hong Kong 2023 previous productions Hong Kong April 2016 and Edinburgh Festival UK 2016.

Extracts live recording A Tale of Two Cities Theatre Production

Gwanwyn

song by C-R Barbier
from the albu "Waxtaan bi", by CR Barbier/ Mbemba Diebaté
recorded in St Louis, 2015

4 - NUIT DE COTON

In 2006, I wrote Les Nuits Sonores for two harpsichords and fixed media for Pamela Nash’s  contemporary music festival, HarpsichordFest, in which one instrument played at modern pitch (A=440Hz), the other a semitone lower at ‘Baroque’ pitch (A=415Hz). This exploited the fact that players have moveable keyboards to enable them to do this and that their repertoire is split between the historical and the contemporary, although there were other philosophical and aesthetic issues to do with Bach, Edwin Fischer, performance practice and the nature of music played ‘live’ or via ‘playback’.  The key compositional drivers were Fischer’s expressive performance of the C# minor Prelude from Book 1 of Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (although sounding in D minor from a Baroque tuning perspective!) which is fixed in time by the recording which runs throughout the whole piece (if not always fully audibly), against which the harpsichords play in strict time as defined by the backing track – although the absence of a click track tends to lead to some flexibility, intended or otherwise!
The piece thus conceptually explores a rhythmic/performance ambiguity that is intended to parallel the 440/415 tunings. The title ‘Les Nuits Sonores’ is borrowed from a French music festival, although in this instance has a different, more resonant connotation.
One other thought: in a nod to the joys of serendipity and the occasional elements of chance employed in the writing of this piece, it is worth mentioning that Fischer’s recording lasts exactly 4’33”!

Les Nuits Sonores

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From Underworld - A musical comedy noir
Book, music and lyrics by Jennifer Whyte
Orchestration by Jennifer Whyte
Recorded and mixed by Chris Traves

Featuring:
Gemma Sutton, Vocals
Mikey Davis, Saxophones
Owain Harries, Trumpets
Chris Traves, Trombone
Jennifer Whyte, Piano
Andy Taylor-Vebel, Guitar
John Gregson, Guitar
Laurence Ungless, Double Bass
Matt Whittington, Drums
Charlie Brown, Violin

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A Short Epic About Love by Sarah Llewellyn

Sarah Llewellyn is a London based composer who writes for theatre, circus, film and radio. She was composer in residence at the RSC 2017 to early 2019. Current projects include, ZARA, HEAR HER SONG, THE WIND SINGER, A LIVE IN THE SAND and THE GREENHAM COMMON WOMEN PROJECT.
She runs her own creative music company Tonal founded in 2004.

Extracts live recording A Tale of Two Cities Theatre Production

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