Matthew Rooke

Setting the tone for the production - the joy of Theremin

La Mouche! Act I Opening Music

Sibelius sound file of arrangement of Bernard Herrmann's masterpiece - Pyscho - for my favourite Sax Quartet - Sax Ecosse

Pyscho Theme B Herrmann Arr For Sax Quartet Matthew Rooke 1 August 2014

updated VSL Special edition orchestra rendering of piece for Bass Clarinet and Strings using VI instruments Pro humanizer

An A Craw Can Sing An Aw (VSL)

Another orchestrating test to see what would happen if Kraftwerk had come about 200 years earlier and had been in Dusseldorf in 1818 when the Dusseldorf Symphony orchestra was founded.  So I have orchestrated Kraftwerk's synth music orchestra emulation  to be an orchestra for an orchestra pretending to be a synth played back by a synthetic orchestra with a sampler.......

OrchestKraftwerk Tour De France - Ein klassisches Orchester Transkription

Trio for Harp, Flute and Viola.  Complete work, Sibelius/VSL rendering.  approx. 10 minutes long.  A companion piece for Debussy trio. Streaming friendly mp3 version

Trio for Harp, Flute And Viola Complete Work

This is the air section for Metal baroque a multi-media modern "Son et Lumiere" blending baroque passion with metal bombast for sax quartet, keyboard strings, organ and choir, plus electric/double bass and percussion.  The show is largely based on the music of Handel, plus a few cameo appearances.

Metal Baroque: "Air Section" Sarabande segue Zadok the Priest

Transcription of harp part for piano, to form piano, flute and harp trio

Piano Version Music For Harp, Flute And Viola

Loge, hör! Lausche hieher from the Jonathan Dove/Birmingham Opera  edition of die Walkure. Wotan: Paul Carey Jones

Die Walkure (Dove Edition) Perth 6 September 2015 End Of Act II Wotan Loge Hör!

Sometimes ts just great fun to respond to a brief for a pastiche or evocation of a style.  Some recent projects for clients.  Perhaps you will be shaken and not stirred; skipping with Desplat; ready to say "honey I'm Home"; or simply stand in awe in front of a middle earth waterfall.......

Not everything has to be serious... - Film & theatre music

a Question Best Left Unanswered

Elgar Sea Pictures - orchestration for Chamber orchestra single wind plus Horn and strings. Live concert recording

Elgar Sea Pictures (Rooke reduction) 5 - The Swimmer

Ae Fond Farewell - Peter Hagen

This is the second of four movements from the Flyting Concert Suite.  This piece starts with an elegy for Low D Scots Whistle, followed by a a duet for Soprano and Bass with strings and, piano, celeste and percussion and is an imagining of the final moments of the life of the early 19th century explorer, Mungo Park's life.

02 - At Boussa Falls(1)

This is the third and forth and final movement from the Flyting Concert Suite. Flyting takes its name from of 16th century performance poetry, akin to modern rap. Flyting as a movement itself is an instrumental work for the whole orchestra but featuring Scots low D whistle which segues into a setting of William Soutar's poem, "The Waterfall" 

03 - Flyting segue into The Waterfall(1)

This is the first of four movements for the Flyting Concert Suite. The piece is about Mungo Park, the early 19th century Scottish African explorer, and sets his words drawn from his journals and letters home.

Matthew Rooke

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