Contrasts

Marimba Dance

The Light Stuff, Vol. 2

Calm Study Two, Celestial Study

Inspired by watching an artist create a portrait by covering the canvas with charcoal dust and using an eraser to form the image. This passage is a musical tribute to our baby Naomi who was stillborn mid 1990s

Made From Dust

Third in the series. A short extract of the initial sketches for this new work. Called Loco, the piece follows on immediately after 'Made from Dust', and I have included the last few bars of the previous work in this snippet, with a short silence between that and the start of Loco so you get the effect, and can hear the relationship between the two works. So keep listening or miss out!

Peter McAleer

Hear the complete Made From Dust here: https://soundcloud.com/user-226990349/made-from-dust-for-orchestra-1?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Loco

Live performance at St. George's Bloomsbury, Nov. 2022
Movement 1: 0'00", movement 2: 1'38", movement 3: 3'12", movement 4: 5'17"

Derek Foster - Miniature String Quartet - Ardenti String Quartet 1

Johann Sebastian Bach, transcribed by Dmitry Sitkovetsky: The "Goldberg" Variations, BWV 988

Britten Sinfonia directed by Thomas Gould, violin

Recorded live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2010.

Johann Sebastian Bach, transcribed by Dmitry Sitkovetsky: The "Goldberg" Variations, BWV 988

Longer version of sketches 2 and studies for my latest orchestral piece 'BlocSwitch'. Additional music as at 15th November 2024
© P. McAleer 15 November 2024 all music contained in BlocSwitch and this upload.


BlocSwitch - Sketches 2 - longer

Very latest music, up to 17th January 2025. See a video of the score on YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/g63n_wqiSmk?si=u_RGknEnvD4MUvBG
BlocSwitch is the latest in a series of related orchestral works. See:
Prologue - https://youtu.be/5L77CefS0hE?si=NrkDZKXReM5eN8sA
Made From Dust - https://youtu.be/5RjIxG5tI-A?si=N0qnIX1UBz8c09wE
Funky Poly - https://youtu.be/x1OWwLA4iXM?si=pjzu9S16GbiaMyy7

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© P. McAleer 2024 all music contained in BlocSwitch for orchestra. © P. McAleer 17th January 2025 this entire upload.

BlocSwitch Latest 17th January 2025

Shchedrin, Rodion: In the Style of Albéniz, for violin and piano

Thomas Gould, violin
John Reid, piano

Recorded live at the Wigmore Hall, London in 2006.

Shchedrin, Rodion: In the Style of Albéniz

Ancient Stones of Kernow is an arts based project which focuses on the prehistory of the far west of Cornwall, in the very southwest of Great Britain. As a part of the project a body of music was written to highlight the atmosphere of the areas landscape. The seminal musical work of the project The Cornish Soundscape ‘An Ancient Land’ was expanded into this major stage work the ballet ‘Mid-Summer Rituals’. This has the summer solstice practises of the neolithic inhabitants of the Zennor area of west Cornwall at its heart and centres around their ceremonial monument ‘Zennor Quoit’. Which still survives in the landscape today. The work consists of 2 acts each of which is made up of a sequence of atmospheric narrations and theatrical dance episodes.

Ancient Stones of Kernow Ballet 'Mid-Summer Rituals' Act 2

Ancient Stones of Kernow Ballet 'Mid-Summer Rituals' Act 1

Composer from Kent UK. Original classical orchestral, instrumental and vocal music.
- The most distinguished contribution was Peter McAleer’s Doorkeeper, which blends spirituals with overlapping phrases reminiscent of Tallis – Time Ashley, the Guardian
-I particularly liked the exultant blaze of Peter McAleer’s Doorkeeper – Geoff Brown, the Times

BlocSwitch - Sketches 2 - longer

Peter McAleer, composer

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