Name: Peter Maxwell Davies: HYMNOS by Roderick Chadwick
Duration: 12 min 30 s
Description: A seminal clarinet and piano piece from the late 1960s. Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh College of Art, 30/6/2025.

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A seminal clarinet and piano piece from the late 1960s. Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh College of Art, 30/6/2025.

Peter Maxwell Davies: HYMNOS

This piece uses the acoustic characteristics of a real space as its basis. The impulse response of St. Andrew's church was analysed to reveal its room modes—those frequencies which it best supports. The strongest nine frequencies were extracted, along with the corresponding twelve tone equally tempered pitches and deviations in cents. The frequencies are approximated in various ways by the violin and piano, creating an abstracted (or extracted?) version of the sonic space.

St Andrew's church in Rutland is known for its 'acoustic jars' dating from the 15th century which are set into the chancel walls. These features were supposedly meant to help amplify the voice of the priest, but there is some doubt as to whether they would have worked or not.

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"St. Andrew’s Lyddington" was written for Ruben Zilberstein and Mateusz Rettner and premiered by them in 840: New Music for Violin and Piano on the 16 December 2017 at St James' Islington.

Georgia Rodgers – St. Andrew’s Lyddington

The Canon from 'Kvarteto' by Adrián Demoč, the first movement of his 'Kvarteto' (2017), played by Apartment House - Anton Lukoszevieze, cello, Mira Benjamin, violin, Heather Roche, clarinet & Philip Thomas, piano.  From a portrait CD of Adrián Demoč's music to be released on Another Timbre late in 2019.

Adrián Demoč - Canon from 'Kvarteto'

The title of the piece is the same as Indian raga Shrî, which signifies lethargy, melancholy, tenderness, love, spirituality, and is also a call for evening prayer. The harmony is based on the same raga scale. The rhythm is based on a change of timbre and pitch by creating different layers of pulse, dynamics, and micro-changes rather than structured rhythmical patterns. The electronics support the score in such a way that it creates smooth, almost imperceptible transformations from one timbral layer to another. Throughout the piece, the harmony expands by pizzicato notes that create new timbral/pitch layers. These disappear or merge from one layer to another until it grows into one soundscape.
The work was commissioned by the Thames festival Trust. The World premiere was performed by ensemble Apartment House on 18 September, in Tower Bridge, London, in 2019.
The work is dedicated to Apartment House.
Violin I - Gordon Mackay
Violinn II - Mira Benjamin
Viola -  Bridget Carey
Violoncello - Anton Lukoszevieze,

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Voice: Siân Wassermann. Photo credit: Suren Manvelyan.

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Peter Maxwell Davies: HYMNOS

Roderick Chadwick

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