Recorded in Huai'an, China on a little iRiver recorder just after I'd written it. The guitar is a bit rattly, but I like it. 

Chinese Bordello

Katherina Zhouravlyova (harp)
Mikhail Konstantinov (percussions)

Andrew Popoff - Silent Concerto For Harp & Percussion

The slow introduction to the final movement of my Seventeenth Quartet is essentially a reworking of the introduction to the opening movement.  It preserves at 0:49 a dissonance which appeared in the 1979 trio version of the music, but which I smoothed out in the first movement of the present work.  The finale proper, Allegro Scherzando, originated in 1988-89 with the sketch of the passage at 8:04 - 8:08, and grew out of it largely in back-formation.  The notion of reiterating the first movement introduction was similarly a back-formation; the five-note scale principal motif of the Allegro Scherzando is closely related to the theme of the introduction, but to the best of my memory the finale began life independently and the relationship was fortuitous.

The Seventeenth Quartet was completed on the Moscow Metro on the evening of August 17th, 1991 (with minor revisions in 2014 and 2018), and is dedicated to my sister Ruth, the intended recipient of the abortive String Trio of 1979 out of which it grew.

A.M.Bell - String Quartet No. 17 (IV - Finale:  Lento - Allegro Scherzando)

This set was uploaded in response to your ad calling for library composers. The mini music sampler is a medley of film, CD, TV and radio recordings. The adagio is the 3rd movement from my four movement guitar concerto Lapis Lazuli, recorded for ABC Classics by Slava Grigoryan and Orchestra Victoria. C.E.O. is a demo of a song of mine (with me singing and playing) written about the Occupy Wall Street movement.

05 Lapis Lazuli III - Adagio

Shaun Rigney, composer

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